culmine

\kyl.min\

/\kyl.min\/ verb

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The verdict

“culmine” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #28,905. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#28,905
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords
10
tracked misspellings
8
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de culminer.

Corpus desk

Index FR-culmine · culmine · French

culmine · rank #28,905 · 10 variants · 8 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #28,905
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
  • VAR-MID 10 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH dard

Nearest frequency peer: dard (+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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « culmine »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « culmine » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

culmine vs cumin
71% similar
culmine vs cultivé
57% similar
culmine vs Céline
57% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for culmine
PropertyValue
Headwordculmine
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\kyl.min\
Letters7
Frequency rank#28,905
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs8
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « culmine »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).culminese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « dard » (#28,906), « datait » (#28,907), « Courtrai » (#28,902). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « culmine » est au #28,905. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 10 spelling variants around culmine (IPA \kyl.min\), averb. Corpus frequency is #28,905 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for culmine, with forms such as "cculmine", "clumine", and "culimne". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 8 confusable-pair relationships, "cumin", "cultivé", "Céline", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is culmine, spelled C-U-L-M-I-N-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de culminer.
  2. 2
    Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de culminer.
  3. 3
    Première personne du singulier du subjonctif présent de culminer.
  4. 4
    Troisième personne du singulier du subjonctif présent de culminer.
  5. 5
    Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif de culminer.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how culmine appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Ce cocon de verdure qui entourait l’airial de Marie a aussi disparu sur la route de Joué, où la tour de guet culmine, esseulée, au milieu d’un paysage lunaire.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • cculmine
  • clumine
  • culimne
  • cullmine
  • culmien
  • culminne
  • culmmine
  • culmnie
  • cumline
  • uclmine

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of culmine - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

cculmine1clumine2culimne2cullmine1culmien2culminne1culmmine1culmnie2
Edit distance from "culmine"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "culmine"?
"culmine" is spelled C-U-L-M-I-N-E. The IPA pronunciation is \kyl.min\.
What does "culmine" mean?
As a verb, "culmine" means: Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de culminer.
What words are commonly confused with "culmine"?
"culmine" is commonly confused with "cumin", "cultivé", "Céline". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "culmine"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "culmine" is \kyl.min\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "culmine" come from?
"culmine" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "culmine", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

demeura#28,909corvées#28,897coriace#28,895cheptel#28,881

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).

débattue10 variantscoiffeurs10 variantsenjoint10 variantsbright10 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list