coquard
\kɔ.kaʁ\
The verdict
“coquard” is uncommon French (frequency #54,499 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,499
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Hybride obtenu par le croisement du faisan et de la poule ou du coq et de la poule faisane.
Corpus desk
Index FR-coquard · coquard · French
coquard · rank #54,499 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,499
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH convaincues
Nearest frequency peer: convaincues (-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 « coquard »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- consumé
consumé
45,505 corpus weight
- contractent
contractent
45,504 corpus weight
- convaincues
convaincues
45,503 corpus weight
- coquard
coquard
45,502 corpus weight
- corporatiste
corporatiste
45,500 corpus weight
- cosmonautes
cosmonautes
45,499 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « coquard » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | coquard |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ.kaʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #54,499 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « coquard » en français
Rare enough to double-check
coquard is uncommon French at frequency #54,499 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɔ.kaʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
coquard has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is coquard, spelled C-O-Q-U-A-R-D.
Definition
- 1Hybride obtenu par le croisement du faisan et de la poule ou du coq et de la poule faisane.
- 2Vieux coq.
- 3Vieillard ridicule.
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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