cima
\si.ma\
The verdict
“cima” is uncommon French (frequency #59,164 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,164
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de cimer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cima · cima · French
cima · rank #59,164 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,164
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH châtre
Nearest frequency peer: châtre (-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 « cima »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cherté
cherté
40,842 corpus weight
- chiisme
chiisme
40,841 corpus weight
- châtre
châtre
40,839 corpus weight
- cima
cima
40,837 corpus weight
- clairières
clairières
40,835 corpus weight
- Clarissa
Clarissa
40,833 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cima » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cima |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \si.ma\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #59,164 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cima » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cima is uncommon French at frequency #59,164 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \si.ma\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de cimer.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for cima, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology 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 cima, spelled C-I-M-A.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de cimer.
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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