cimeterre
\sim.tɛʁ\
The verdict
“cimeterre” is uncommon French (frequency #95,700 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,700
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sabre, principalement en usage au Moyen-Orient et avec une lame très large et recourbée.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cimeterre · cimeterre · French
cimeterre · rank #95,700 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,700
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Cimbres
Nearest frequency peer: Cimbres (-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 « cimeterre »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- 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
- CJCE
CJCE
4,297 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cimeterre » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cimeterre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sim.tɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #95,700 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cimeterre » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cimeterre is uncommon French at frequency #95,700 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \sim.tɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for cimeterre, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is cimeterre, spelled C-I-M-E-T-E-R-R-E.
Definition
- 1Sabre, principalement en usage au Moyen-Orient et avec une lame très large et recourbée.
- 2Meuble représentant l’arme du même nom dans les armoiries. À rapprocher de badelaire, coutelas, couteau, épée, kriss, rapière et sabre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cimeterre appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Quand le hardi Provençal vit ses ennemis hors d’état de le surveiller, il se servit de ses dents pour s’emparer d’un cimeterre, puis, s’aidant de ses genoux pour en fixer la lame, il trancha les cordes qui lui ôtaient l’usage de ses mains et se trouva libre.
De temps en temps un large éclair ouvrait l’horizon dans toute sa largeur, serpentait au-dessus de la masse noire des arbres et venait, comme un effrayant cimeterre couper le ciel et l’eau en deux parties.
Synonyms
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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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