cylindre simple
The verdict
“cylindre simple” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 15
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Cylindre de serrure ne pouvant être ouvert ou fermé que d’un seul côté.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cylindre simple |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \si.lɛ̃.dʁə sɛ̃pl\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “cylindre simple” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for cylindre simple is 15 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \si.lɛ̃.dʁə sɛ̃pl\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Cylindre de serrure ne pouvant être ouvert ou fermé que d’un seul côté.".
No misspelling variants are generated for cylindre simple in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 cylindre simple, spelled C-Y-L-I-N-D-R-E- -S-I-M-P-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Cylindre de serrure ne pouvant être ouvert ou fermé que d’un seul côté.
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The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is C-Y-L-I-N-D-R-E- -S-I-M-P-L-E — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \si.lɛ̃.dʁə sɛ̃pl\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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