coccyx
\kɔk.sis\
The verdict
“coccyx” is uncommon French (frequency #62,869 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,869
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Petit os des hominoïdes qui est comme un appendice de l’os sacrum, à l’extrémité duquel il est attaché, formé de quatre à six vertèbres coccygiennes soudées chez l’humain, vestige de la queue (appe...
Corpus desk
Index FR-coccyx · coccyx · French
coccyx · rank #62,869 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,869
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH coaxial
Nearest frequency peer: coaxial (-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 « coccyx »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- clinic
clinic
37,135 corpus weight
- coa
coa
37,134 corpus weight
- coaxial
coaxial
37,133 corpus weight
- coccyx
coccyx
37,132 corpus weight
- Cocody
Cocody
37,131 corpus weight
- codeur
codeur
37,130 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « coccyx » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | coccyx |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔk.sis\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #62,869 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « coccyx » en français
Rare enough to double-check
coccyx is uncommon French at frequency #62,869 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɔk.sis\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Petit os des hominoïdes qui est comme un appendice de l’os sacrum, à l’extrémité duquel il est attaché, formé de quatre à six vertèbres coccygiennes soudées chez l’humain, vestige de la queue (appe...".
coccyx has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is coccyx, spelled C-O-C-C-Y-X.
Definition
- 1Petit os des hominoïdes qui est comme un appendice de l’os sacrum, à l’extrémité duquel il est attaché, formé de quatre à six vertèbres coccygiennes soudées chez l’humain, vestige de la queue (appendice caudal) atrophiée.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how coccyx appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La queue des animaux n’est qu’un coccyx prolongé.
Au total, le coccyx possède quinze points d’ossification. cinq primitifs et dix complémentaires.
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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