concubin
\kɔ̃.ky.bɛ̃\
The verdict
“concubin” is uncommon French (frequency #62,158 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,158
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Personne qui vit avec un partenaire en état de concubinage.
Corpus desk
Index FR-concubin · concubin · French
concubin · rank #62,158 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,158
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH condamine
Nearest frequency peer: condamine (+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 « concubin »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- commuée
commuée
37,846 corpus weight
- comporterait
comporterait
37,845 corpus weight
- concubin
concubin
37,843 corpus weight
- condamine
condamine
37,842 corpus weight
- condense
condense
37,841 corpus weight
- congelées
congelées
37,840 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « concubin » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | concubin |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.ky.bɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #62,158 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « concubin » en français
Rare enough to double-check
concubin is uncommon French at frequency #62,158 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɔ̃.ky.bɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for concubin, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is concubin, spelled C-O-N-C-U-B-I-N.
Definition
- 1Personne qui vit avec un partenaire en état de concubinage.
- 2Les deux membres d’un couple en état de concubinage.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how concubin appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Redoutant qu’à son retour son concubin ne lui fasse de vifs reproches et ne la frappe, elle décida de faire disparaître l’entant.
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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