fume-cigarette
\fym.si.ɡa.ʁɛt\
The verdict
“fume-cigarette” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Petit tube légèrement évasé, de matière diverse, à l’extrémité duquel on adapte la cigarette de manière à la fumer sans qu’elle touche aux lèvres.
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Index FR-fume-cigarette · fume-cigarette · French
fume-cigarette · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "F" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fume-cigarette |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fym.si.ɡa.ʁɛt\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
fume-cigarette is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \fym.si.ɡa.ʁɛt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Petit tube légèrement évasé, de matière diverse, à l’extrémité duquel on adapte la cigarette de manière à la fumer sans qu’elle touche aux lèvres.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for fume-cigarette in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is fume-cigarette, spelled F-U-M-E---C-I-G-A-R-E-T-T-E.
Definition
- 1Petit tube légèrement évasé, de matière diverse, à l’extrémité duquel on adapte la cigarette de manière à la fumer sans qu’elle touche aux lèvres.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how fume-cigarette appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Elle plantait, par saccades, un fume-cigarette entre ses dents.
César était particulièrement distingué ce jour-là — au cou, un foulard de soie bordeaux, entre les doigts un long fume-cigarette d’ivoire — […]
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.