culminent
\kyl.min\
The verdict
“culminent” is uncommon French (frequency #78,311 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,311
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de culminer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-culminent · culminent · French
culminent · rank #78,311 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,311
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cubistes
Nearest frequency peer: cubistes (-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 « culminent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cruzeiro
cruzeiro
21,693 corpus weight
- crédibiliser
crédibiliser
21,692 corpus weight
- cubistes
cubistes
21,691 corpus weight
- culminent
culminent
21,690 corpus weight
- cunni
cunni
21,689 corpus weight
- curare
curare
21,688 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « culminent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | culminent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kyl.min\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #78,311 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « culminent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
culminent is uncommon French at frequency #78,311 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \kyl.min\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for culminent, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 culminent, spelled C-U-L-M-I-N-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de culminer.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du subjonctif présent de culminer.
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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