coda
\kɔ.da\
The verdict
“coda” is uncommon French (frequency #72,195 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,195
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Passage final d’un morceau de musique ou d’un mouvement, conclusion, postlude.
Corpus desk
Index FR-coda · coda · French
coda · rank #72,195 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,195
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cliffhanger
Nearest frequency peer: cliffhanger (-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 « coda »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Clauzel
Clauzel
27,809 corpus weight
- clebs
clebs
27,808 corpus weight
- cliffhanger
cliffhanger
27,807 corpus weight
- coda
coda
27,806 corpus weight
- collectant
collectant
27,805 corpus weight
- comateux
comateux
27,804 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « coda » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | coda |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ.da\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #72,195 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « coda » en français
Rare enough to double-check
coda is uncommon French at frequency #72,195 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɔ.da\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
coda doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is coda, spelled C-O-D-A.
Definition
- 1Passage final d’un morceau de musique ou d’un mouvement, conclusion, postlude.
- 2Signe, en forme de cercle superposé à un signe « plus », auquel l’interprète se réfère pour jouer le passage final.
- 3Une ou plusieurs consonnes suivant le noyau vocalique dans une syllabe.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how coda appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
… L’enterrement [d’un auteur] fait office de coda ou de postface dans laquelle un autre que l’auteur (après qu’il est passé à la trappe) conclut le texte, afin que nous puissions comprendre son sens, si ce n’est sa morale.
La coda du mot « porte », prononcé /pɔʁt/, est /ʁt/ ; tandis que « pot », prononcé /po/, n'a pas de coda du tout.
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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