cimetière

\sim.tjɛʁ\

/\sim.tjɛʁ\/ noun

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The verdict

“cimetière” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #5,113. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#5,113
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords
13
tracked misspellings
2
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Lieu où l’on enterre les morts.

Corpus desk

Index FR-cimetiere · cimetière · French

cimetière · rank #5,113 · 13 variants · 2 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #5,113
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 13 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH chiant

Nearest frequency peer: chiant (-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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « cimetière »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « cimetière » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

cimetière vs cimetières
90% similar
cimetière vs cafetière
78% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for cimetière
PropertyValue
Headwordcimetière
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\sim.tjɛʁ\
Letters9
Frequency rank#5,113
Misspellings tracked13
Confusable pairs2
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « cimetière »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.cimetièrese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « chiant » (#5,112), « comptait » (#5,114), « canapé » (#5,111). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « cimetière » est au #5,113. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 13 spelling variants around cimetière (IPA \sim.tjɛʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #5,113 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for cimetière, with forms such as "ccimetière", "ciemtière", and "cimeitère". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "cimetières", "cafetière", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is cimetière, spelled C-I-M-E-T-I-È-R-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Lieu où l’on enterre les morts.
  2. 2
    Lieu servant de dépôt d’objets usagés encombrants.
  3. 3
    Là où git ce qui a disparu.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how cimetière appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Si l'un des pèlerins venait à mourir sur le bateau, le capitaine devrait ne point pratiquer aussitôt l’immersion, mais bien atterrir quelque part et faire ensevelir le défunt dans un cimetière .
  2. Rétoil, qui est marbrier au cimetière de Volvic et nous a promis à chacun sa meilleure inscription, grave en attendant dans le marbre de la cheminée.

Synonyms

boulevard des allongéschamp de navetsChamp-des-Navets

This word in other languages

cemetery(English)cementerio(Español)Friedhof(Deutsch)cemitério(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ccimetière
  • ciemtière
  • cimeitère
  • cimetiere
  • cimetirèe
  • cimetièer
  • cimetièrre
  • cimettière
  • cimetèire
  • cimmetière
  • cimteière
  • cmietière
  • icmetière

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cimetière - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

ccimetière1ciemtière2cimeitère2cimetiere1cimetirèe2cimetièer2cimetièrre1cimettière1
Edit distance from "cimetière"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "cimetière"?
"cimetière" is spelled C-I-M-E-T-I-È-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is \sim.tjɛʁ\.
What does "cimetière" mean?
As a noun, "cimetière" means: Lieu où l’on enterre les morts.
What words are commonly confused with "cimetière"?
"cimetière" is commonly confused with "cimetières", "cafetière". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "cimetière"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "cimetière" is \sim.tjɛʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "cimetière" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "cimetière", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).

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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list