ciments
\si.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“ciments” is uncommon French (frequency #51,961 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,961
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de ciment.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ciments · ciments · French
ciments · rank #51,961 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,961
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Châteauguay
Nearest frequency peer: Châteauguay (-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 « ciments »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Chiapas
Chiapas
48,043 corpus weight
- châtaigniers
châtaigniers
48,042 corpus weight
- Châteauguay
Châteauguay
48,041 corpus weight
- ciments
ciments
48,040 corpus weight
- CLI
CLI
48,039 corpus weight
- clipper
clipper
48,038 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ciments » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ciments |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \si.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #51,961 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ciments » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ciments is uncommon French at frequency #51,961 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \si.mɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de ciment.".
ciments doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is ciments, spelled C-I-M-E-N-T-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de ciment.
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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