corlieu
French, noun/kɔʁ.ljø/
corlieu is spelled C-O-R-L-I-E-U (7 letters) and appears about once in every 41 million words in written French, the 202,924th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Corlieu is a French masculine noun meaning “young curlew” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Petit du courlis”.
What does corlieu mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineyoung curlew
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Petit du courlis. 2. Nom d'une espèce circumboréale commune de courlis, le courlis corlieu (Numenius phaeopus).
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of corlieu
- corlieux plural
- corlieus plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce corlieu?
- /kɔʁ.ljø/
- \kɔʁ.ljø\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is corlieu in French?
corlieu appears about once in every 41 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).