cimicaire
\si.mi.kɛʁ\
The verdict
“cimicaire” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom désuet de l'actée, genre de la famille des renonculacées, auquel appartient la Actaea cimicifuga (anciennement nommée Cimicifuga foetida ), dont l’odeur écarte, dit-on, les punaises.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cimicaire · cimicaire · French
cimicaire · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "C" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cimicaire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \si.mi.kɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
cimicaire is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \si.mi.kɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom désuet de l'actée, genre de la famille des renonculacées, auquel appartient la Actaea cimicifuga (anciennement nommée Cimicifuga foetida ), dont l’odeur écarte, dit-on, les punaises.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for cimicaire, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is cimicaire, spelled C-I-M-I-C-A-I-R-E.
Definition
- 1Nom désuet de l'actée, genre de la famille des renonculacées, auquel appartient la Actaea cimicifuga (anciennement nommée Cimicifuga foetida ), dont l’odeur écarte, dit-on, les punaises.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how cimicaire appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mais le goût des illusions et de l’artificiel amène son apparition, aussi bien que la cimicaire écarte les punaises.
Synonyms
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