cocus
\kɔ.ky\
The verdict
“cocus” is uncommon French (frequency #59,896 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,896
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de cocu.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cocus · cocus · French
cocus · rank #59,896 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,896
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cocagne
Nearest frequency peer: cocagne (-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 « cocus »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- climatologue
climatologue
40,108 corpus weight
- cocagne
cocagne
40,106 corpus weight
- cocus
cocus
40,105 corpus weight
- cogneur
cogneur
40,104 corpus weight
- cogénération
cogénération
40,103 corpus weight
- colour
colour
40,102 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cocus » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cocus |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kɔ.ky\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #59,896 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cocus » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cocus is uncommon French at frequency #59,896 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \kɔ.ky\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Masculin pluriel de cocu.".
Zero misspellings are on record for cocus in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, 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 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 cocus, spelled C-O-C-U-S.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de cocu.
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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