choucas
\ʃu.ka\
The verdict
“choucas” is uncommon French (frequency #71,352 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,352
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Petit corvidé, sociable, vif, bruyant, et facile à domestiquer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-choucas · choucas · French
choucas · rank #71,352 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,352
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH chenapan
Nearest frequency peer: chenapan (-2 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 « choucas »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- chastain
chastain
28,653 corpus weight
- Chaucer
Chaucer
28,652 corpus weight
- chenapan
chenapan
28,651 corpus weight
- choucas
choucas
28,649 corpus weight
- Cimade
Cimade
28,647 corpus weight
- claret
claret
28,646 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « choucas » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | choucas |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃu.ka\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #71,352 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « choucas » en français
Rare enough to double-check
choucas is uncommon French at frequency #71,352 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʃu.ka\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Petit corvidé, sociable, vif, bruyant, et facile à domestiquer.".
Zero misspellings are on record for choucas in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is choucas, spelled C-H-O-U-C-A-S.
Definition
- 1Petit corvidé, sociable, vif, bruyant, et facile à domestiquer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how choucas appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En toutes saisons, dans le ciel, à cause de la proximité de la forêt, vont et viennent les corbeaux et les choucas au bec jaune.
Des croassements de choucas traversaient, en se répondant, l’air silencieux du parc.
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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