caoutchoucs
\ka.ut.ʃu\
The verdict
“caoutchoucs” is uncommon French (frequency #79,138 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,138
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de caoutchouc.
Corpus desk
Index FR-caoutchoucs · caoutchoucs · French
caoutchoucs · rank #79,138 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,138
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Calvino
Nearest frequency peer: Calvino (-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 « caoutchoucs »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cabriolets
cabriolets
20,867 corpus weight
- Calvino
Calvino
20,864 corpus weight
- caoutchoucs
caoutchoucs
20,863 corpus weight
- captez
captez
20,862 corpus weight
- caricatural…
caricaturales
20,860 corpus weight
- castral
castral
20,859 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « caoutchoucs » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | caoutchoucs |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.ut.ʃu\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #79,138 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « caoutchoucs » en français
Rare enough to double-check
caoutchoucs is uncommon French at frequency #79,138 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ka.ut.ʃu\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de caoutchouc.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for caoutchoucs, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is caoutchoucs, spelled C-A-O-U-T-C-H-O-U-C-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de caoutchouc.
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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