coastal
\ˈkəʊ.stəl\
The verdict
“coastal” is uncommon French (frequency #79,164 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,164
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Littoral.
Corpus desk
Index FR-coastal · coastal · French
coastal · rank #79,164 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,164
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH CMOS
Nearest frequency peer: CMOS (-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 « coastal »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- clairsemés
clairsemés
20,841 corpus weight
- Cluedo
Cluedo
20,839 corpus weight
- CMOS
CMOS
20,838 corpus weight
- coastal
coastal
20,837 corpus weight
- coaster
coaster
20,836 corpus weight
- cochenilles
cochenilles
20,835 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « coastal » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | coastal |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ˈkəʊ.stəl\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #79,164 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « coastal » en français
Rare enough to double-check
coastal is uncommon French at frequency #79,164 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ˈkəʊ.stəl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Littoral.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for coastal, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is coastal, spelled C-O-A-S-T-A-L.
Definition
- 1Littoral.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).