cumulonimbus
\ky.my.lɔ.nɛ̃.bys\
The verdict
“cumulonimbus” is uncommon French (frequency #94,671 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #94,671
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nuage dense et haut, donnant des orages.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cumulonimbus · cumulonimbus · French
cumulonimbus · rank #94,671 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #94,671
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Cupra
Nearest frequency peer: Cupra (+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 « cumulonimbus »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- crétinisme
crétinisme
5,333 corpus weight
- cumulonimbus
cumulonimbus
5,330 corpus weight
- Cupra
Cupra
5,329 corpus weight
- cuver
cuver
5,328 corpus weight
- cyclomoteurs
cyclomoteurs
5,327 corpus weight
- cytologie
cytologie
5,326 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cumulonimbus » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cumulonimbus |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ky.my.lɔ.nɛ̃.bys\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #94,671 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cumulonimbus » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cumulonimbus is uncommon French at frequency #94,671 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ky.my.lɔ.nɛ̃.bys\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nuage dense et haut, donnant des orages.".
No misspelling variants are generated for cumulonimbus in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No explicit etymology string is stored 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 cumulonimbus, spelled C-U-M-U-L-O-N-I-M-B-U-S.
Definition
- 1Nuage dense et haut, donnant des orages.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cumulonimbus appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le chasseur de nuages peut distinguer un cumulonimbus de son jeune frère,le cumulus congestus, en examinant avec attention la partie supérieure du nuage.
Une tornade se forme lors d’orage violent. C’est un puissant tourbillon d’air ascendant en entonnoir, dont le diamètre est généralement compris entre 50 et 1000 m. Elle prend naissance à la base d’un énorme nuage le Cumulonimbus. Le cumulonimbus pompe l’air chaud et humide des basses couches de l’atmosphère.
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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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