cimenter
\si.mɑ̃.te\
The verdict
“cimenter” is uncommon French (frequency #65,791 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,791
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Lier avec du ciment, enduire de ciment.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cimenter · cimenter · French
cimenter · rank #65,791 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,791
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cidres
Nearest frequency peer: cidres (-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 « cimenter »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- chèvrefeuil…
chèvrefeuille
34,213 corpus weight
- cidres
cidres
34,211 corpus weight
- cimenter
cimenter
34,210 corpus weight
- Cioran
Cioran
34,209 corpus weight
- cita
cita
34,208 corpus weight
- CLM
CLM
34,207 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cimenter » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cimenter |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \si.mɑ̃.te\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #65,791 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cimenter » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cimenter is uncommon French at frequency #65,791 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \si.mɑ̃.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for cimenter in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, 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 cimenter, spelled C-I-M-E-N-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1Lier avec du ciment, enduire de ciment.
- 2Faire tenir des parties entre elles.
- 3Confirmer ; lier ; affermir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cimenter appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Parallèlement à la rivière, afin de régulariser le cours de l’eau, les paysans ont d’abord creusé puis cimenté un canal de dérivation équipé de batardeaux, ouvrages permettant de régler le débit de l’eau.
De larges taches noirâtres, disséminées à la surface du nouvel icefield, indiquaient que les glaçons étaient encore mal cimentés entre eux.
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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