culminer
\kyl.mi.ne\
The verdict
“culminer” is uncommon French (frequency #76,473 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,473
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Atteindre, en parlant d’un astre, sa plus grande hauteur en passant au méridien.
Corpus desk
Index FR-culminer · culminer · French
culminer · rank #76,473 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,473
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cueillie
Nearest frequency peer: cueillie (-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 « culminer »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- créatinine
créatinine
23,531 corpus weight
- crépon
crépon
23,530 corpus weight
- cueillie
cueillie
23,529 corpus weight
- culminer
culminer
23,528 corpus weight
- cups
cups
23,527 corpus weight
- curistes
curistes
23,526 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « culminer » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | culminer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kyl.mi.ne\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #76,473 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « culminer » en français
Rare enough to double-check
culminer is uncommon French at frequency #76,473 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \kyl.mi.ne\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for culminer, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is culminer, spelled C-U-L-M-I-N-E-R.
Definition
- 1Atteindre, en parlant d’un astre, sa plus grande hauteur en passant au méridien.
- 2Être à son point culminant.
- 3Atteindre un maximum.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how culminer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le bassin de l’Arve atteint une superficie de 1856 km2, avec une altitude moyenne de 1427 m. Il culmine au sommet du Mont Blanc à 4807 m et s’abaisse à 375 m dans le bassin genevois.
Le populationnisme de Petty culmine ainsi au milieu des années 1680 dans cet extravagant projet de « multiplication de l'espèce humaine ».
This word in other languages
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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