codétenus
\kɔ.det.ny\
The verdict
“codétenus” is uncommon French (frequency #82,801 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,801
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de codétenu.
Corpus desk
Index FR-codetenus · codétenus · French
codétenus · rank #82,801 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,801
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cogito
Nearest frequency peer: cogito (+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 « codétenus »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Clt
Clt
17,203 corpus weight
- Clélia
Clélia
17,202 corpus weight
- codétenus
codétenus
17,200 corpus weight
- cogito
cogito
17,199 corpus weight
- cohéritiers
cohéritiers
17,198 corpus weight
- collerait
collerait
17,197 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « codétenus » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | codétenus |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ.det.ny\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #82,801 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « codétenus » en français
Rare enough to double-check
codétenus is uncommon French at frequency #82,801 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɔ.det.ny\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de codétenu.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for codétenus, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is codétenus, spelled C-O-D-É-T-E-N-U-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de codétenu.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how codétenus appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il gueule du matin au soir et, quand il a commencé à tout casser dans sa cellule sous les regards horrifiés de ses deux codétenus qui voyaient déjà leur tour arriver, il a été placé à l’isolement.
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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