coruscant
\kɔ.ʁys.kɑ̃\
The verdict
“coruscant” is an uncommon French word, ranked #82,823 in French word frequency and used as an adjective.
- #82,823
- frequency rank, French
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Qui brille intensément, qui étincèle vivement.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | coruscant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kɔ.ʁys.kɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #82,823 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “coruscant” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for coruscant is 9 letters long, classified as an adjective, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɔ.ʁys.kɑ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #82,823 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for coruscant, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is coruscant, spelled C-O-R-U-S-C-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui brille intensément, qui étincèle vivement.
- 2Qualifie un style qui se singularise par ses particularités lexicales, sa prédilection pour les vocables rares, archaïques, régionaux, dialectaux ou néologiques, ses manipulations du matériel grammatical et ses distorsions syntaxiques.
- 3Se dit d’une personne particulièrement brillante, intelligente, ou remarquable quelle qu’en soit la raison.
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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Using “coruscant”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is C-O-R-U-S-C-A-N-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \kɔ.ʁys.kɑ̃\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.