ciment
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#9,134
in French word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
15
similar word pairs
ciment is aFrenchnoun. It means: Mélange de briques pulvérisées et de chaux dont on faisait un mortier ^([2]). Pronounced \si.mɑ̃\. It ranks #9,134 in French word frequency. Often confused with cimes and client.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ciment |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \si.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #9,134 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 15 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for ciment is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \si.mɑ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #9,134 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for ciment, with forms such as "cciment", "ciemnt", and "cimennt". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 15 confusable-pair relationships, "cimes", "client", "créent", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is ciment, spelled C-I-M-E-N-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Mélange de briques pulvérisées et de chaux dont on faisait un mortier ^([2]).
- 2Liant à prise hydraulique, une fois mélangé avec du sable, et/ou du gravier est destiné à la fabrication du béton hydraulique (ou simplement béton), du mortier, de divers enduits
- 3Ce béton ou le mortier lui-même.
- 4Débris de poterie broyés.
- 5Substance qui a migré parmi les particules d'une roche et qui en assure la cohésion.
- 6Ce qui lie des choses ou des êtres ensemble.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: cciment,ciemnt,cimennt,cimentt,cimetn,cimment,cimnet,cmient,icment
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "ciment"
Frequency rank: #9,134 in French
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