cumbia
\kum.bja\
The verdict
“cumbia” is uncommon French (frequency #92,600 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #92,600
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Genre musical et danse de Colombie, nés au XVIIᵉ siècle.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cumbia · cumbia · French
cumbia · rank #92,600 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #92,600
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH culminants
Nearest frequency peer: culminants (-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 « cumbia »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- crevure
crevure
7,404 corpus weight
- croiserez
croiserez
7,403 corpus weight
- culminants
culminants
7,402 corpus weight
- cumbia
cumbia
7,401 corpus weight
- cumulable
cumulable
7,400 corpus weight
- cupid
cupid
7,399 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cumbia » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cumbia |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kum.bja\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #92,600 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cumbia » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cumbia is uncommon French at frequency #92,600 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kum.bja\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
cumbia has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is cumbia, spelled C-U-M-B-I-A.
Definition
- 1Genre musical et danse de Colombie, nés au XVIIᵉ siècle.
- 2Morceau dans ce genre musical.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cumbia appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Leur succès fut instantané et des groupes ont mélangé ces musiques à la cumbia, au vallenato et à d'autres rythmes locaux», relate Roberto.
Chaque mardi à 21h30, un concert sera proposé dans des styles variés : blues, chanson, twist, pop rock, cumbia…
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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