cyrillique
\si.ʁi.lik\
The verdict
“cyrillique” is uncommon French (frequency #61,439 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,439
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qualifie l’alphabet utilisé pour la transcription de langues slaves.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cyrillique · cyrillique · French
cyrillique · rank #61,439 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,439
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH curaçao
Nearest frequency peer: curaçao (-2 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 « cyrillique »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Créon
Créon
38,566 corpus weight
- cucul
cucul
38,565 corpus weight
- curaçao
curaçao
38,564 corpus weight
- cyrillique
cyrillique
38,562 corpus weight
- decks
decks
38,560 corpus weight
- Delannoy
Delannoy
38,558 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cyrillique » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cyrillique |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \si.ʁi.lik\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #61,439 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cyrillique » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cyrillique is uncommon French at frequency #61,439 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \si.ʁi.lik\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qualifie l’alphabet utilisé pour la transcription de langues slaves.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for cyrillique, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 cyrillique, spelled C-Y-R-I-L-L-I-Q-U-E.
Definition
- 1Qualifie l’alphabet utilisé pour la transcription de langues slaves.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how cyrillique appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’alphabet cyrillique est celui dont on se sert en ex U.R.S.S. , en Bulgarie et dans une partie de la Yougoslavie.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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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