cocue
\kɔ.ky\
The verdict
“cocue” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 5
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Femme dont le/la conjoint(e) est infidèle.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cocue · cocue · French
cocue · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "C" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cocue |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ.ky\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cocue » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cocue is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɔ.ky\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Femme dont le/la conjoint(e) est infidèle.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for cocue in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is cocue, spelled C-O-C-U-E.
Definition
- 1Femme dont le/la conjoint(e) est infidèle.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.