climb
\klaɪm\
The verdict
“climb” is uncommon French (frequency #81,002 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,002
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Grimpée, escalade.
Corpus desk
Index FR-climb · climb · French
climb · rank #81,002 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,002
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH climatisée
Nearest frequency peer: climatisée (-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 « climb »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- classieux
classieux
19,003 corpus weight
- Claverie
Claverie
19,002 corpus weight
- climatisée
climatisée
19,000 corpus weight
- climb
climb
18,999 corpus weight
- clouet
clouet
18,998 corpus weight
- clue
clue
18,997 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « climb » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | climb |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \klaɪm\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #81,002 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « climb » en français
Rare enough to double-check
climb is uncommon French at frequency #81,002 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \klaɪm\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Grimpée, escalade.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for climb, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. 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.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is climb, spelled C-L-I-M-B.
Definition
- 1Grimpée, escalade.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how climb appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
It’s a quick climb to the top.
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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