cosaque
\kɔ.zak\
The verdict
“cosaque” is uncommon French (frequency #51,383 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,383
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif aux Cosaques, peuple slavophone d’Europe orientale.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cosaque · cosaque · French
cosaque · rank #51,383 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,383
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH corrigeant
Nearest frequency peer: corrigeant (-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 « cosaque »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- correspondra
correspondra
48,621 corpus weight
- corriere
corriere
48,620 corpus weight
- corrigeant
corrigeant
48,619 corpus weight
- cosaque
cosaque
48,618 corpus weight
- cousues
cousues
48,617 corpus weight
- couvercles
couvercles
48,616 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cosaque » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cosaque |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kɔ.zak\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #51,383 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cosaque » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cosaque is uncommon French at frequency #51,383 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \kɔ.zak\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for cosaque in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is cosaque, spelled C-O-S-A-Q-U-E.
Definition
- 1Relatif aux Cosaques, peuple slavophone d’Europe orientale.
- 2Brutal, sans respect particulier pour la manière de le dire ou les personnes.
- 3Rude, solide.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cosaque appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je ne puis en vouloir aux hommes qui, n’étant pas nés aux confins de la steppe russe d’un mélange de sang juif, cosaque et tartare, avaient de la France une vue beaucoup plus calme et beaucoup plus mesurée.
Le peuple cosaque.
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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