Cimade
\si.mad\
The verdict
“Cimade” is uncommon French (frequency #71,354 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,354
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Organisation française défendant les migrants, les réfugiés et les déplacés, les demandeurs d’asile et les étrangers en situation irrégulière
Corpus desk
Index FR-cimade · Cimade · French
Cimade · rank #71,354 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,354
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH claret
Nearest frequency peer: claret (+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 « Cimade »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Chaucer
Chaucer
28,652 corpus weight
- chenapan
chenapan
28,651 corpus weight
- choucas
choucas
28,649 corpus weight
- Cimade
Cimade
28,647 corpus weight
- claret
claret
28,646 corpus weight
- clignotent
clignotent
28,645 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Cimade » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Cimade |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \si.mad\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #71,354 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Cimade » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Cimade is uncommon French at frequency #71,354 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \si.mad\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Organisation française défendant les migrants, les réfugiés et les déplacés, les demandeurs d’asile et les étrangers en situation irrégulière".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Cimade, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 Cimade, spelled C-I-M-A-D-E.
Definition
- 1Organisation française défendant les migrants, les réfugiés et les déplacés, les demandeurs d’asile et les étrangers en situation irrégulière
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Cimade appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Selon RESF, Médecins du monde et la Cimade, « 68 mineurs étaient enfermés le lundi 21 août, dans des locaux totalement inadaptés et dans des conditions sanitaires déplorables : en pleine canicule, entassés, dormant à même le sol avec uniquement un lavabo et des W.-C. »
La mission de la Cimade consiste à accueillir, orienter et défendre les personnes étrangères.
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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