cimaises
\si.mɛz\
The verdict
“cimaises” is uncommon French (frequency #80,044 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,044
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de cimaise.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cimaises · cimaises · French
cimaises · rank #80,044 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,044
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Cilaos
Nearest frequency peer: Cilaos (-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 « cimaises »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- chromosomiq…
chromosomiques
19,960 corpus weight
- Cilaos
Cilaos
19,958 corpus weight
- cimaises
cimaises
19,957 corpus weight
- cintrées
cintrées
19,956 corpus weight
- citronnier
citronnier
19,955 corpus weight
- claquait
claquait
19,954 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cimaises » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cimaises |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \si.mɛz\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #80,044 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cimaises » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cimaises is uncommon French at frequency #80,044 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \si.mɛz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de cimaise.".
Zero misspellings are on record for cimaises in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is cimaises, spelled C-I-M-A-I-S-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de cimaise.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how cimaises appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il comptabilise à ce jour, 1 000 toiles qui ont vu le jour dans son atelier ou sur les cimaises de sa galerie landernéenne : des œuvres abstraites ou tournées vers la mer et les bateaux, essentiellement réalisées à l’acrylique, sur bois, ardoise ou pans de palettes avec des techniques diverses.
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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