cymbale
\sɛ̃.bal\
The verdict
“cymbale” is uncommon French (frequency #88,511 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,511
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Instrument de musique de l’Antiquité, fait de deux moitiés de globe en airain.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cymbale · cymbale · French
cymbale · rank #88,511 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,511
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH curd
Nearest frequency peer: curd (-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 « cymbale »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cultuels
cultuels
11,492 corpus weight
- curd
curd
11,491 corpus weight
- cymbale
cymbale
11,490 corpus weight
- cytokines
cytokines
11,489 corpus weight
- célimène
célimène
11,487 corpus weight
- Daces
Daces
11,486 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cymbale » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cymbale |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sɛ̃.bal\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #88,511 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cymbale » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cymbale is uncommon French at frequency #88,511 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \sɛ̃.bal\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
cymbale doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
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 cymbale, spelled C-Y-M-B-A-L-E.
Definition
- 1Instrument de musique de l’Antiquité, fait de deux moitiés de globe en airain.
- 2Instrument de musique consistant en deux disques ou plateaux de cuivre que l’on frappe en mesure l’un contre l’autre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cymbale appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Cette musique avait une origine orientale, ayant été importée de la Terre sainte, et le mélange des cymbales et des clochettes semblait en même temps souhaiter la bienvenue et porter le défi aux chevaliers ….
Mais les Flowers of Romance pouvaient aussi se vanter d'être le seul groupe de l'histoire du rock à avoir une batteuse qui n'utilisait jamais les cymbales.
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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