coruscant
\kɔ.ʁys.kɑ̃\
The verdict
“coruscant” is uncommon French (frequency #82,823 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,823
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui brille intensément, qui étincèle vivement.
Corpus desk
Index FR-coruscant · coruscant · French
coruscant · rank #82,823 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,823
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cornus
Nearest frequency peer: cornus (-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 « coruscant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- copi
copi
17,181 corpus weight
- Cornelis
Cornelis
17,180 corpus weight
- cornus
cornus
17,179 corpus weight
- coruscant
coruscant
17,178 corpus weight
- cotonniers
cotonniers
17,177 corpus weight
- coûteraient
coûteraient
17,176 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « coruscant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| 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) |
Longue queue: rang de « coruscant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
coruscant is uncommon French at frequency #82,823 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \kɔ.ʁys.kɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how coruscant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Alors, tandis que le grondement de la pluie redoublait sur les feuillages et que tout semblait vouloir se dissoudre dans la nuée vaporeuse qui montait du sol, il vit se former à l’horizon un arc-en ciel plus vaste et plus coruscant que la nature seule n’en peut créer.
Vous étiez déjà charmant, drôle, pétillant d’humour, coruscant d’anecdotes…
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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