Cimbres
\sɛ̃bʁ\
The verdict
“Cimbres” is uncommon French (frequency #95,699 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,699
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Peuple germanique originaire du Jutland qui s’opposa aux Romains lors de la Guerre des Cimbres.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cimbres · Cimbres · French
Cimbres · rank #95,699 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,699
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH chéquiers
Nearest frequency peer: chéquiers (-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 « Cimbres »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- chitine
chitine
4,307 corpus weight
- chocottes
chocottes
4,305 corpus weight
- chéquiers
chéquiers
4,303 corpus weight
- Cimbres
Cimbres
4,302 corpus weight
- cimeterre
cimeterre
4,301 corpus weight
- circonstanc…
circonstancielles
4,300 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Cimbres » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Cimbres |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sɛ̃bʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #95,699 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Cimbres » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Cimbres is uncommon French at frequency #95,699 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \sɛ̃bʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Cimbres, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored 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 Cimbres, spelled C-I-M-B-R-E-S.
Definition
- 1Peuple germanique originaire du Jutland qui s’opposa aux Romains lors de la Guerre des Cimbres.
- 2Peuple germanique d'Italie vivant principalement au Frioul.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Cimbres appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les Cimbres et les Teutons, chassés de la Chersonèse cimbrique par un débordement de la mer Baltique, se montrèrent aux Romains sous les Alpes tridentines, au nombre de plus de trois cent mille.
On est obligé de penser aux oies du Capitole, aux Cimbres enroulés dans les brouillards nordiques comme les chenilles processionnaires dans leurs nids de coton.
This word in other languages
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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