cheminent
\ʃə.min\
The verdict
“cheminent” is uncommon French (frequency #88,453 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,453
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de cheminer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cheminent · cheminent · French
cheminent · rank #88,453 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,453
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH chercheure
Nearest frequency peer: chercheure (+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 « cheminent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- chagriné
chagriné
11,552 corpus weight
- chalk
chalk
11,551 corpus weight
- chaînons
chaînons
11,550 corpus weight
- cheminent
cheminent
11,548 corpus weight
- chercheure
chercheure
11,547 corpus weight
- chibi
chibi
11,546 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cheminent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cheminent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʃə.min\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #88,453 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cheminent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cheminent is uncommon French at frequency #88,453 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʃə.min\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for cheminent, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 cheminent, spelled C-H-E-M-I-N-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de cheminer.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du subjonctif présent de cheminer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how cheminent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le Lapic est une des rivières qui se jette au Moulin de la Rive et dont les méandres cheminent dans les sous-bois.
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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