cygne

\siɲ\

/\siɲ\/ noun

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The verdict

“cygne” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #19,252. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#19,252
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords
8
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Gros oiseau palmipède, aquatique, dont le plumage est d’ordinaire blanc et qui a un cou long et souple.

Corpus desk

Index FR-cygne · cygne · French

cygne · rank #19,252 · 8 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #19,252
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 8 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH cuvette

Nearest frequency peer: cuvette (-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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « cygne »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « cygne » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

cygne vs cygnes
83% similar
cygne vs signe
60% similar
cygne vs signent
43% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for cygne
PropertyValue
Headwordcygne
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\siɲ\
Letters5
Frequency rank#19,252
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « cygne »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.cygnese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « cuvette » (#19,251), « cérébrales » (#19,253), « cueillir » (#19,250). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « cygne » est au #19,252. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 8 spelling variants around cygne (IPA \siɲ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #19,252 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 6 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for cygne, with forms such as "ccygne", "cgyne", and "cygen". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "cygnes", "signe", "signent", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is cygne, spelled C-Y-G-N-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Gros oiseau palmipède, aquatique, dont le plumage est d’ordinaire blanc et qui a un cou long et souple.
  2. 2
    Grand poète, homme éloquent, grand musicien.
  3. 3
    Glace flottante isolée.
  4. 4
    Meuble représentant l’animal du même nom dans les armoiries. Représenté de profil avec ses pattes visibles contrairement à l’alcyon, couché dans son nid les pattes cachées. À rapprocher de canard, cane, canette, jars et oie.
  5. 5
    Robinet en cou de cygne.
  6. 6
    Évier.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how cygne appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Le cygne trompette, siffle, drense et drensite.
  2. Vers le 20 mars, les chasseurs signalèrent les premiers cygnes, qui émigraient des territoires méridionaux et s’envolaient vers le nord en poussant d’aigres sifflements.

This word in other languages

swan(English)cisne(Español)Schwan(Deutsch)cisne(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ccygne
  • cgyne
  • cygen
  • cyggne
  • cygnne
  • cynge
  • cyygne
  • ycgne

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cygne - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

ccygne1cgyne2cygen2cyggne1cygnne1cynge2cyygne1ycgne2
Edit distance from "cygne"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "cygne"?
"cygne" is spelled C-Y-G-N-E. The IPA pronunciation is \siɲ\.
What does "cygne" mean?
As a noun, "cygne" means: Gros oiseau palmipède, aquatique, dont le plumage est d’ordinaire blanc et qui a un cou long et souple.
What words are commonly confused with "cygne"?
"cygne" is commonly confused with "cygnes", "signe", "signent". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "cygne"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "cygne" is \siɲ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "cygne" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "cygne", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

dorés#19,260burns#19,226brive#19,224Flora#19,288

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).

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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list