cimier
\si.mje\
The verdict
“cimier” is uncommon French (frequency #69,687 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,687
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ornement qui forme la cime d’un casque, ou plus généralement de tout couvre-chef.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cimier · cimier · French
cimier · rank #69,687 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,687
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cicatrise
Nearest frequency peer: cicatrise (-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 « cimier »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- chti
chti
30,317 corpus weight
- chuchotant
chuchotant
30,316 corpus weight
- cicatrise
cicatrise
30,315 corpus weight
- cimier
cimier
30,314 corpus weight
- cirée
cirée
30,313 corpus weight
- cithare
cithare
30,312 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cimier » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cimier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \si.mje\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #69,687 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cimier » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cimier is uncommon French at frequency #69,687 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \si.mje\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for cimier in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is cimier, spelled C-I-M-I-E-R.
Definition
- 1Ornement qui forme la cime d’un casque, ou plus généralement de tout couvre-chef.
- 2Type de masque africain.
- 3Partie supérieure d’un arbre.
- 4Figure qui se place au-dessus du timbre.
- 5Pièce de bœuf charnue prise sur le quartier de derrière.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cimier appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En jetant les yeux sur son casque, on en voyait sortir, à travers une couronne de comte qui en formait le cimier, un bras nu levant une épée nue.
Il avait les cheveux rasés à l’exception d’une raie sur le milieu de la tête qui faisait l’effet du cimier d’un casque.
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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