comateux
\kɔ.ma.tø\
The verdict
“comateux” is uncommon French (frequency #72,197 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,197
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif au coma.
Corpus desk
Index FR-comateux · comateux · French
comateux · rank #72,197 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,197
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH collectant
Nearest frequency peer: collectant (-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 « comateux »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cliffhanger
cliffhanger
27,807 corpus weight
- coda
coda
27,806 corpus weight
- collectant
collectant
27,805 corpus weight
- comateux
comateux
27,804 corpus weight
- combattues
combattues
27,803 corpus weight
- comedia
comedia
27,802 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « comateux » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | comateux |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kɔ.ma.tø\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #72,197 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « comateux » en français
Rare enough to double-check
comateux is uncommon French at frequency #72,197 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \kɔ.ma.tø\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Relatif au coma.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for comateux, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is comateux, spelled C-O-M-A-T-E-U-X.
Definition
- 1Relatif au coma.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how comateux appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En voyant que son pénitent en revenait toujours à la honte de son inertie et à cet état de comateuse doléance dans lequel le plongeait la transe du Sacrement, le vieux prêtre lui dit : […].
Lorsqu’on affirme qu’un patient comateux « s’enfonce » ou au contraire qu’il « remonte », la métaphore que nous utilisons vient implicitement de Jackson. — (Lionel Naccache, Le Nouvel Inconscient : Freud, le Christophe Colomb des neurosciences, Odile Jacob, 2009, page 59)
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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