cypress
\ˈsaɪ.prəs\
The verdict
“cypress” is uncommon French (frequency #75,570 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,570
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Cyprès.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cypress · cypress · French
cypress · rank #75,570 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,570
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cyberdéfense
Nearest frequency peer: cyberdéfense (-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 « cypress »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- customiser
customiser
24,434 corpus weight
- customisé
customisé
24,433 corpus weight
- cyberdéfense
cyberdéfense
24,432 corpus weight
- cypress
cypress
24,431 corpus weight
- céréalier
céréalier
24,430 corpus weight
- dari
dari
24,428 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cypress » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cypress |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈsaɪ.prəs\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #75,570 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cypress » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cypress is uncommon French at frequency #75,570 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈsaɪ.prəs\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Cyprès.".
No misspelling variants are generated for cypress in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is cypress, spelled C-Y-P-R-E-S-S.
Definition
- 1Cyprès.
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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