concubines
\kɔ̃.ky.bin\
The verdict
“concubines” is uncommon French (frequency #56,505 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,505
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de concubine.
Corpus desk
Index FR-concubines · concubines · French
concubines · rank #56,505 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,505
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH comoriens
Nearest frequency peer: comoriens (-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 « concubines »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- commentez
commentez
43,498 corpus weight
- comoriens
comoriens
43,497 corpus weight
- concubines
concubines
43,496 corpus weight
- conquit
conquit
43,495 corpus weight
- consentent
consentent
43,494 corpus weight
- conserverait
conserverait
43,493 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « concubines » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | concubines |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.ky.bin\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #56,505 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « concubines » en français
Rare enough to double-check
concubines is uncommon French at frequency #56,505 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɔ̃.ky.bin\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de concubine.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for concubines, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 concubines, spelled C-O-N-C-U-B-I-N-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de concubine.
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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