cinabre
\si.nabʁ\
The verdict
“cinabre” is uncommon French (frequency #82,789 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,789
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Combinaison naturelle ou artificielle de mercure et de soufre, de formule HgS, dont on fait le vermillon.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cinabre · cinabre · French
cinabre · rank #82,789 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,789
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH ciboulot
Nearest frequency peer: ciboulot (-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 « cinabre »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Chokri
Chokri
17,215 corpus weight
- choron
choron
17,214 corpus weight
- ciboulot
ciboulot
17,213 corpus weight
- cinabre
cinabre
17,212 corpus weight
- circuleront
circuleront
17,211 corpus weight
- citronniers
citronniers
17,210 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cinabre » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cinabre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \si.nabʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #82,789 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cinabre » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cinabre is uncommon French at frequency #82,789 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \si.nabʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
cinabre doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is cinabre, spelled C-I-N-A-B-R-E.
Definition
- 1Combinaison naturelle ou artificielle de mercure et de soufre, de formule HgS, dont on fait le vermillon.
- 2Encre pourpre fabriquée à partir du cinabre. Cette encre était utilisée par les Byzantins pour authentifier les actes impériaux issus de la chancellerie.
- 3Couleur rouge teinté d’orange.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cinabre appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mais l’étranger lui écrivit en réponse, sur un parchemin […] et avec des caractères rouges comme le cinabre.
Un éventail rouge tremblait comme un papillon de cinabre dans ses doigts chargés de bagues d’argent.
Synonyms
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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