cystite
\sis.tit\
The verdict
“cystite” is uncommon French (frequency #71,413 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,413
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Inflammation de la vessie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cystite · cystite · French
cystite · rank #71,413 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,413
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cyrène
Nearest frequency peer: cyrène (-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 « cystite »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- 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
- céréalières
céréalières
28,586 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cystite » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cystite |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sis.tit\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #71,413 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cystite » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cystite is uncommon French at frequency #71,413 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \sis.tit\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Inflammation de la vessie.".
No misspelling variants are generated for cystite in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is cystite, spelled C-Y-S-T-I-T-E.
Definition
- 1Inflammation de la vessie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cystite appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il y a deux étiologies possibles pour les cystites, reprend Olympe. Soit un germe infectieux, soit un dysfonctionnement rénal. J’ai tâté sa vessie d’abord, pour vérifier qu’elle ne se mettait pas en globe.
La cystite peut être infectieuse (bactéries, champignons), postradique, interstitielle, ou toxique iatrogène : (acide tiaprofénique et certains cytotoxiques comme le cyclophosphamide et l’ifcsfamide).
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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