codecs
\kɔ.dɛk\
The verdict
“codecs” is uncommon French (frequency #81,893 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,893
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de codec.
Corpus desk
Index FR-codecs · codecs · French
codecs · rank #81,893 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,893
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH coalisées
Nearest frequency peer: coalisées (-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 « codecs »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- clarisses
clarisses
18,111 corpus weight
- coalisées
coalisées
18,109 corpus weight
- codecs
codecs
18,108 corpus weight
- colorisation
colorisation
18,107 corpus weight
- coltan
coltan
18,106 corpus weight
- combatifs
combatifs
18,105 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « codecs » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | codecs |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ.dɛk\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #81,893 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « codecs » en français
Rare enough to double-check
codecs is uncommon French at frequency #81,893 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɔ.dɛk\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de codec.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for codecs in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is codecs, spelled C-O-D-E-C-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de codec.
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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