coquille Saint-Jacques
\kɔ.kij sɛ̃.ʒak\
The verdict
“coquille Saint-Jacques” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 22
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mollusque bivalve apprécié pour sa chair, très riche en fer, de nom scientifique Pecten maximus.
Corpus desk
Index FR-coquille-saint-jacques · coquille Saint-Jacques · French
coquille Saint-Jacques · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 22 letters
- VOW-9 9 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "C" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | coquille Saint-Jacques |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ.kij sɛ̃.ʒak\ |
| Letters | 22 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
coquille Saint-Jacques is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɔ.kij sɛ̃.ʒak\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
coquille Saint-Jacques doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is coquille Saint-Jacques, spelled C-O-Q-U-I-L-L-E- -S-A-I-N-T---J-A-C-Q-U-E-S.
Definition
- 1Mollusque bivalve apprécié pour sa chair, très riche en fer, de nom scientifique Pecten maximus.
- 2Meuble rarement utilisé sous ce nom dans les blasonnements. Voir coquille. À rapprocher de conque, coquille, huître et vannet.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how coquille Saint-Jacques appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On ne le sait pas, mais un tiers des coquilles Saint-Jacques françaises sont pêchées dans les eaux britanniques.
Parti, au premier, coupé émanché d’argent et de gueules ; au second, palé de six pièces d’argent et de gueules, au chef d’azur chargé de trois coquilles Saint-Jacques d’or, qui est de Moimay de Haute-Saône → voir illustration « armoiries avec 3 coquilles Saint-Jacques »
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.