cumulard
\ky.my.laʁ\
The verdict
“cumulard” is uncommon French (frequency #98,934 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #98,934
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celui qui cumule les emplois, fonctions, salaires, etc.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cumulard · cumulard · French
cumulard · rank #98,934 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #98,934
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cultivar
Nearest frequency peer: cultivar (-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 « cumulard »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- crèvecœur
crèvecœur
1,072 corpus weight
- crétoise
crétoise
1,071 corpus weight
- cuise
cuise
1,069 corpus weight
- cultivar
cultivar
1,068 corpus weight
- cumulard
cumulard
1,067 corpus weight
- cénomanien
cénomanien
1,063 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cumulard » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cumulard |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ky.my.laʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #98,934 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cumulard » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cumulard is uncommon French at frequency #98,934 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ky.my.laʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Celui qui cumule les emplois, fonctions, salaires, etc.".
cumulard doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is cumulard, spelled C-U-M-U-L-A-R-D.
Definition
- 1Celui qui cumule les emplois, fonctions, salaires, etc.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cumulard appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On parle des politiciens cumulards mais que dire de ceux qui sont dans de multiples conseils d'administration ?!
« Je suis un cumulard et je le revendique », dit Jean-Claude Phlypo, administrateur général de la Société régionale wallonne du transport. Par contre, quand en octobre 2000, La Dernière heure lui demande le montant de son salaire, il répond : « Je préfère le garder sous silence. »
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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