cycle
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,917
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
cycle is aFrenchnoun. It means: Révolution astronomique. Pronounced \sikl\. It ranks #2,917 in French word frequency. Often confused with cygne and cyclo.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cycle |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sikl\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #2,917 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for cycle is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sikl\. Corpus data places it at rank #2,917 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 14 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for cycle, with forms such as "ccycle", "ccyle", and "cyccle". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "cygne", "cyclo", "cycles", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is cycle, spelled C-Y-C-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Révolution astronomique.
- 2Période de temps correspondant à cette révolution.
- 3Période de temps de longueur variable.
- 4Période de temps entre deux générations d’animaux ou de végétaux.
- 5Itération, retour à une instruction déjà exécutée, répétition d’une commande.
- 6Représentation virtuelle d’une chaine carbonée qui serait reliée à ses extrémités.
- 7Suite de phénomènes qui se suivent dans un ordre déterminé.
- 8Suite d'arêtes consécutives (chaine) dont les deux sommets extrémités sont identiques dans un graphe non orienté.
- 9Pour un courant alternatif, période séparant un maximum de tension d’un minimum. Le nombre de cycles par seconde correspond à sa fréquence.
- 10Ensemble de textes qui se rapporte à un même sujet.
- 11Ensemble de textes qui se rapporte à un même sujet.
- 12Suite d’arc dont les deux extrémités sont le même sommet.
- 13Cycle d’orientation.
- 14Contraction de cycle menstruel.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccycle,ccyle,cyccle,cycel,cyclle,cylce,cyycle,yccle
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for cycle
Misspelling Variants of "cycle"
Frequency rank: #2,917 in French
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