concubins
\kɔ̃.ky.bɛ̃\
The verdict
“concubins” is uncommon French (frequency #82,809 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,809
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de concubin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-concubins · concubins · French
concubins · rank #82,809 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,809
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH comtal
Nearest frequency peer: comtal (-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 « concubins »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- column
column
17,196 corpus weight
- comtal
comtal
17,193 corpus weight
- concubins
concubins
17,192 corpus weight
- conditionne…
conditionnels
17,191 corpus weight
- condés
condés
17,190 corpus weight
- confite
confite
17,189 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « concubins » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | concubins |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.ky.bɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #82,809 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « concubins » en français
Rare enough to double-check
concubins is uncommon French at frequency #82,809 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɔ̃.ky.bɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de concubin.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for concubins, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is concubins, spelled C-O-N-C-U-B-I-N-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de concubin.
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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