cement
\sɪˈment\
The verdict
“cement” is uncommon French (frequency #76,409 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,409
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ciment.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cement · cement · French
cement · rank #76,409 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,409
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH catins
Nearest frequency peer: catins (-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 « cement »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cataclysmes
cataclysmes
23,594 corpus weight
- catins
catins
23,593 corpus weight
- cement
cement
23,592 corpus weight
- centrisme
centrisme
23,591 corpus weight
- certif
certif
23,590 corpus weight
- certificate
certificate
23,589 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cement » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cement |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sɪˈment\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #76,409 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cement » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cement is uncommon French at frequency #76,409 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \sɪˈment\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Ciment.".
cement has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 cement, spelled C-E-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Ciment.
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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