cinémascope
\si.ne.ma.skɔp\
The verdict
“cinémascope” is uncommon French (frequency #84,637 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,637
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Système optique (hypergonar) qui permet de projeter des films en grande largeur à partir d’une pellicule de largeur normale.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cinemascope · cinémascope · French
cinémascope · rank #84,637 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,637
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH chrysalides
Nearest frequency peer: chrysalides (-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 « cinémascope »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- chicots
chicots
15,367 corpus weight
- chromatine
chromatine
15,366 corpus weight
- chrysalides
chrysalides
15,365 corpus weight
- cinémascope
cinémascope
15,364 corpus weight
- claustropho…
claustrophobie
15,363 corpus weight
- Cléa
Cléa
15,361 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cinémascope » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cinémascope |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \si.ne.ma.skɔp\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #84,637 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cinémascope » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cinémascope is uncommon French at frequency #84,637 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \si.ne.ma.skɔp\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for cinémascope, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is cinémascope, spelled C-I-N-É-M-A-S-C-O-P-E.
Definition
- 1Système optique (hypergonar) qui permet de projeter des films en grande largeur à partir d’une pellicule de largeur normale.
- 2Spectacle grandiose.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cinémascope appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…] il s’avançait avec nonchalance vers le public, sur l’immense écran vide et déformé des premiers films en cinémascope – c’était l’année de la découverte du scope – et à mesure que la silhouette de Sinatra grossissait, la musique augmentait de volume.
Mais on doit bien avoir à l’esprit le fait que, du son à la couleur, au cinémascope et à l’image numérique, toutes les inventions qui l’ont transformé auront été là bien avant que l’industrie les intègre et les commercialise.
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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