comanche
\kɔ.mɑ̃ʃ\
The verdict
“comanche” is uncommon French (frequency #70,487 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,487
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif aux Comanches, une ethnie amérindienne vivant principalement en Oklahoma et accessoirement au Texas, en Californie et au Nouveau-Mexique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-comanche · comanche · French
comanche · rank #70,487 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,487
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH coloscopie
Nearest frequency peer: coloscopie (-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 « comanche »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- collantes
collantes
29,517 corpus weight
- collyre
collyre
29,516 corpus weight
- coloscopie
coloscopie
29,515 corpus weight
- comanche
comanche
29,514 corpus weight
- Combray
Combray
29,513 corpus weight
- coment
coment
29,512 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « comanche » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | comanche |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kɔ.mɑ̃ʃ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #70,487 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « comanche » en français
Rare enough to double-check
comanche is uncommon French at frequency #70,487 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \kɔ.mɑ̃ʃ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Relatif aux Comanches, une ethnie amérindienne vivant principalement en Oklahoma et accessoirement au Texas, en Californie et au Nouveau-Mexique.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for comanche, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is comanche, spelled C-O-M-A-N-C-H-E.
Definition
- 1Relatif aux Comanches, une ethnie amérindienne vivant principalement en Oklahoma et accessoirement au Texas, en Californie et au Nouveau-Mexique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how comanche appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La nation comanche.
Il gagna la protection d’un chef de tribu comanche, en lui promettant en mariage sa fille, qui n’était encore qu’une charmante enfant.
This word in other languages
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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