copeau
\kɔ.po\
The verdict
“copeau” is uncommon French (frequency #62,168 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,168
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Éclat, morceau ou rognure qu’on enlève du bois avec un instrument tranchant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-copeau · copeau · French
copeau · rank #62,168 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,168
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH convalescent
Nearest frequency peer: convalescent (-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 « copeau »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- contracture
contracture
37,836 corpus weight
- contrefait
contrefait
37,835 corpus weight
- convalescent
convalescent
37,834 corpus weight
- copeau
copeau
37,833 corpus weight
- corrélés
corrélés
37,832 corpus weight
- corto
corto
37,831 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « copeau » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | copeau |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ.po\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #62,168 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « copeau » en français
Rare enough to double-check
copeau is uncommon French at frequency #62,168 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɔ.po\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 6 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for copeau in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
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 copeau, spelled C-O-P-E-A-U.
Definition
- 1Éclat, morceau ou rognure qu’on enlève du bois avec un instrument tranchant.
- 2Tortillon de métal.
- 3Lamelles de bois très fines dont on fait des peignes ou des ornements.
- 4Tranches fines de roche schisteuse dont on fait les ardoises.
- 5Frites.
- 6Petits morceaux, bribes.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how copeau appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Gros copeaux.
Menus copeaux.
Synonyms
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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