Simferopol
\sim.fe.ʁɔ.pɔl\
The verdict
“Simferopol” is uncommon French (frequency #87,158 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,158
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Chef-lieu de la Crimée (Ukraine).
Corpus desk
Index FR-simferopol · Simferopol · French
Simferopol · rank #87,158 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,158
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sillonnée
Nearest frequency peer: sillonnée (-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 « Simferopol »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- shandy
shandy
12,848 corpus weight
- Sigmaringen
Sigmaringen
12,846 corpus weight
- sillonnée
sillonnée
12,844 corpus weight
- Simferopol
Simferopol
12,843 corpus weight
- simu
simu
12,840 corpus weight
- sixteen
sixteen
12,838 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Simferopol » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Simferopol |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \sim.fe.ʁɔ.pɔl\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #87,158 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Simferopol » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Simferopol is uncommon French at frequency #87,158 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \sim.fe.ʁɔ.pɔl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Chef-lieu de la Crimée (Ukraine).".
No misspelling variants are generated for Simferopol in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, 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 Simferopol, spelled S-I-M-F-E-R-O-P-O-L.
Definition
- 1Chef-lieu de la Crimée (Ukraine).
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Simferopol appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L'intérieur du hall de la gare de Simferopol est tapissé de portraits encadrés en médaillons sculptés (bas-reliefs) représentant les personnages illustres de l'histoire russe et soviétique.
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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