corsée
\kɔʁ.se\
The verdict
“corsée” is uncommon French (frequency #86,576 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,576
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de corsé.
Corpus desk
Index FR-corsee · corsée · French
corsée · rank #86,576 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,576
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH corréler
Nearest frequency peer: corréler (-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 « corsée »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- corollaires
corollaires
13,428 corpus weight
- Coromandel
Coromandel
13,427 corpus weight
- corréler
corréler
13,426 corpus weight
- corsée
corsée
13,425 corpus weight
- corton
corton
13,424 corpus weight
- cosmodrome
cosmodrome
13,422 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « corsée » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | corsée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kɔʁ.se\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #86,576 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « corsée » en français
Rare enough to double-check
corsée is uncommon French at frequency #86,576 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \kɔʁ.se\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin singulier de corsé.".
corsée doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is corsée, spelled C-O-R-S-É-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de corsé.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how corsée appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
À ses narines surgissent ici et là, à quoi qu’il soit occupé, des croches de parfums surannés, l’odeur des pelures de reinettes ou des zestes de peaux d’orange que sa grand-mère laissait brûler sur le dessus de la cuisinière pour chasser les miasmes microbiens et les esprits malins ou pour embaumer la pièce, et celle, puissante, corsée, qui excite et dila…
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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