coo
\kuː\
The verdict
“coo” is uncommon French (frequency #55,170 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,170
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Roucoulement.
Corpus desk
Index FR-coo · coo · French
coo · rank #55,170 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,170
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH convoyeurs
Nearest frequency peer: convoyeurs (-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 « coo »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- contrebassi…
contrebassiste
44,834 corpus weight
- contribuait
contribuait
44,833 corpus weight
- convoyeurs
convoyeurs
44,832 corpus weight
- coo
coo
44,831 corpus weight
- copient
copient
44,830 corpus weight
- coprésident
coprésident
44,829 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « coo » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | coo |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kuː\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #55,170 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « coo » en français
Rare enough to double-check
coo is uncommon French at frequency #55,170 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kuː\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Roucoulement.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for coo, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 coo, spelled C-O-O.
Definition
- 1Roucoulement.
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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