culmination
French, noun/kyl.mi.na.sjɔ̃/
culmination is spelled C-U-L-M-I-N-A-T-I-O-N (11 letters) and appears about once in every 11 million words in written French, the 108,277th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Culmination is a French feminine noun meaning “culmination” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Moment du passage d’un astre par le méridien”.
What does culmination mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineculmination
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Moment du passage d’un astre par le méridien. 2. Culminance.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of culmination
- culminations plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce culmination?
- /kyl.mi.na.sjɔ̃/
- \kyl.mi.na.sjɔ̃\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is culmination in French?
culmination appears about once in every 11 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).