Cyclades
\si.klad\
The verdict
“Cyclades” is uncommon French (frequency #53,885 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,885
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Archipel d’îles et îlots de la mer Égée méridionale.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cyclades · Cyclades · French
Cyclades · rank #53,885 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,885
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Crémieux
Nearest frequency peer: Crémieux (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangs de longue queue près de « Cyclades »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- crispation
crispation
46,120 corpus weight
- croûtons
croûtons
46,118 corpus weight
- Crémieux
Crémieux
46,117 corpus weight
- Cyclades
Cyclades
46,116 corpus weight
- Darby
Darby
46,113 corpus weight
- Davide
Davide
46,112 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Cyclades » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Cyclades |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \si.klad\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #53,885 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Cyclades » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Cyclades is uncommon French at frequency #53,885 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \si.klad\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Archipel d’îles et îlots de la mer Égée méridionale.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Cyclades, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Cyclades, spelled C-Y-C-L-A-D-E-S.
Definition
- 1Archipel d’îles et îlots de la mer Égée méridionale.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Cyclades appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le jeudi, peu après le lever du jour, les premières Cyclades apparurent : Thermia la trapue et Hagios la minuscule, Zéa la ronde à tribord et Makronisi à bâbord, allongée contre la côte grecque.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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