ciment

/\si.mɑ̃\/ noun

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.

Key facts for ciment
PropertyValue
Headwordciment
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\si.mɑ̃\
Letters6
Frequency rank#9,134
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs15
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of ciment in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

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

  1. 1
    Mélange de briques pulvérisées et de chaux dont on faisait un mortier ^([2]).
  2. 2
    Liant 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
  3. 3
    Ce béton ou le mortier lui-même.
  4. 4
    Débris de poterie broyés.
  5. 5
    Substance qui a migré parmi les particules d'une roche et qui en assure la cohésion.
  6. 6
    Ce qui lie des choses ou des êtres ensemble.

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: cciment,ciemnt,cimennt,cimentt,cimetn,cimment,cimnet,cmient,icment

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for ciment

Misspelling Variants of "ciment"

cciment7ciemnt6cimennt7cimentt7cimetn6cimment7cimnet6cmient6
Misspelling Variants of "ciment"

Frequency rank: #9,134 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "ciment"?
"ciment" is spelled C-I-M-E-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is \si.mɑ̃\.
What does "ciment" mean?
As a noun, "ciment" means: Mélange de briques pulvérisées et de chaux dont on faisait un mortier ^([2]).
What words are commonly confused with "ciment"?
"ciment" is commonly confused with "cimes", "client", "créent". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "ciment"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "ciment" is \si.mɑ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "ciment" come from?
"ciment" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.