cauchois
\ko.ʃwa\
The verdict
“cauchois” is uncommon French (frequency #93,585 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #93,585
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif au Pays de Caux, à ses habitants.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cauchois · cauchois · French
cauchois · rank #93,585 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #93,585
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH caté
Nearest frequency peer: caté (-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 « cauchois »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- catharisme
catharisme
6,419 corpus weight
- Cathie
Cathie
6,418 corpus weight
- caté
caté
6,417 corpus weight
- cauchois
cauchois
6,416 corpus weight
- Cerruti
Cerruti
6,415 corpus weight
- Chandernagor
Chandernagor
6,413 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cauchois » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cauchois |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ko.ʃwa\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #93,585 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cauchois » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cauchois is uncommon French at frequency #93,585 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ko.ʃwa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for cauchois in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
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 cauchois, spelled C-A-U-C-H-O-I-S.
Definition
- 1Relatif au Pays de Caux, à ses habitants.
- 2Relatif à Cauchy-à-la-Tour, commune française située dans le département du Pas-de-Calais.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cauchois appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Rouen… Dieppe… Le Havre… Le triangle cauchois… Tout est là… D’un côté la mer. D’un autre la Seine. D’un autre, les deux vallées qui conduisent de Rouen à Dieppe.
Le fermier cauchois, en bon père de famille, s'efforce, quand ses fils sont devenus des hommes, de les établir, à leur tour, dans de petites fermes, ….r
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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