cirrocumulus
\si.ʁɔ.ky.my.lys\
The verdict
“cirrocumulus” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nuage appartenant à l'étage supérieur, situé à une altitude comprise entre 5000 et 10000 mètres, en forme de fleur de coton.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cirrocumulus · cirrocumulus · French
cirrocumulus · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 12 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 | cirrocumulus |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \si.ʁɔ.ky.my.lys\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cirrocumulus » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cirrocumulus is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \si.ʁɔ.ky.my.lys\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nuage appartenant à l'étage supérieur, situé à une altitude comprise entre 5000 et 10000 mètres, en forme de fleur de coton.".
cirrocumulus has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is cirrocumulus, spelled C-I-R-R-O-C-U-M-U-L-U-S.
Definition
- 1Nuage appartenant à l'étage supérieur, situé à une altitude comprise entre 5000 et 10000 mètres, en forme de fleur de coton.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how cirrocumulus appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On observe souvent des cirrus se formant à partir de virga issues de cirrocumulus ou d’altocumulus, ou à partir de la partie supérieure d’un cumulonimbus.
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.