culminent
\kyl.min\
The verdict
“culminent” is uncommon French (frequency #78,311 among 257,141 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,311
- frequency rank, French
- 257,141
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de culminer.
| 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) |
Where “culminent” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
culminent is uncommon French at frequency #78,311 among 257,141 “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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Using “culminent”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is C-U-L-M-I-N-E-N-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \kyl.min\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.