cuma
\ʦ̑ũma\
The verdict
“cuma” is uncommon French (frequency #79,198 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,198
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Câble d’amarrage.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cuma · cuma · French
cuma · rank #79,198 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,198
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH culpabilisant
Nearest frequency peer: culpabilisant (-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 « cuma »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- culbuter
culbuter
20,805 corpus weight
- culpabilisa…
culpabilisant
20,804 corpus weight
- cuma
cuma
20,803 corpus weight
- cumulatifs
cumulatifs
20,802 corpus weight
- Cythère
Cythère
20,801 corpus weight
- côtoyait
côtoyait
20,800 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cuma » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cuma |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʦ̑ũma\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #79,198 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cuma » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cuma is uncommon French at frequency #79,198 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʦ̑ũma\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Câble d’amarrage.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for cuma, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, 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 easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is cuma, spelled C-U-M-A.
Definition
- 1Câble d’amarrage.
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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