cymbales
\sɛ̃.bal\
The verdict
“cymbales” is uncommon French (frequency #54,514 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,514
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de cymbale.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cymbales · cymbales · French
cymbales · rank #54,514 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,514
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cyberattaque
Nearest frequency peer: cyberattaque (-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 « cymbales »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- custer
custer
45,490 corpus weight
- cuticule
cuticule
45,489 corpus weight
- cyberattaque
cyberattaque
45,488 corpus weight
- cymbales
cymbales
45,487 corpus weight
- Daley
Daley
45,486 corpus weight
- dancehall
dancehall
45,485 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cymbales » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cymbales |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sɛ̃.bal\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #54,514 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cymbales » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cymbales is uncommon French at frequency #54,514 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \sɛ̃.bal\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de cymbale.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for cymbales in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is cymbales, spelled C-Y-M-B-A-L-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de cymbale.
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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