cyrène
\si.ʁɛn\
The verdict
“cyrène” is uncommon French (frequency #71,412 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,412
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom donné à deux genres importants de mollusques d’eau douce (Corbicula et Polymesoda) que l’on rencontre en abondance dans les rivières ou ruisseaux des pays chauds.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cyrene · cyrène · French
cyrène · rank #71,412 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,412
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Cylons
Nearest frequency peer: Cylons (-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 « cyrène »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Curtius
Curtius
28,592 corpus weight
- cutting
cutting
28,591 corpus weight
- Cylons
Cylons
28,590 corpus weight
- cyrène
cyrène
28,589 corpus weight
- cystite
cystite
28,588 corpus weight
- Cèze
Cèze
28,587 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cyrène » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cyrène |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \si.ʁɛn\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #71,412 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cyrène » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cyrène is uncommon French at frequency #71,412 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \si.ʁɛn\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom donné à deux genres importants de mollusques d’eau douce (Corbicula et Polymesoda) que l’on rencontre en abondance dans les rivières ou ruisseaux des pays chauds.".
cyrène has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is cyrène, spelled C-Y-R-È-N-E.
Definition
- 1Nom donné à deux genres importants de mollusques d’eau douce (Corbicula et Polymesoda) que l’on rencontre en abondance dans les rivières ou ruisseaux des pays chauds.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how cyrène appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ce type [le terrain garumnien] est incontestablement crétacé ; car il offre à la base, avec des cyrènes… des hippurites d’espèces nouvelles et d’autres fossiles marins.
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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