cinéma
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,108
in French word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
3
similar word pairs
cinéma is aFrenchnoun. It means: Art de réaliser un film ainsi que l’ensemble des techniques employées. Pronounced \si.ne.ma\. It ranks #1,108 in French word frequency. Often confused with citera and cinémas.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cinéma |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \si.ne.ma\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #1,108 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for cinéma is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \si.ne.ma\. Corpus data places it at rank #1,108 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for cinéma, with forms such as "ccinéma", "cinema", and "cinméa". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "citera", "cinémas", "ciné", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is cinéma, spelled C-I-N-É-M-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Art de réaliser un film ainsi que l’ensemble des techniques employées.
- 2Caméra pour filmer des événements remarquables, en vue d’une diffusion par films.
- 3Lieu où l’on projette des films.
- 4Appareil de prise de vue photographique.
- 5Mensonge ou action non spontanée effectuée en public.
- 6Fausse colère, caprice (employé par les parents en direction de leurs enfants).
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccinéma,cinema,cinméa,cinnéma,cinéam,cinémma,ciénma,cniéma,icnéma
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for cinéma
Misspelling Variants of "cinéma"
Frequency rank: #1,108 in French
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