cossue
\kɔ.sy\
The verdict
“cossue” is uncommon French (frequency #85,599 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,599
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de cossu.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cossue · cossue · French
cossue · rank #85,599 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,599
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH coronarien
Nearest frequency peer: coronarien (-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 « cossue »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cornue
cornue
14,404 corpus weight
- coronarien
coronarien
14,403 corpus weight
- cossue
cossue
14,402 corpus weight
- cossus
cossus
14,401 corpus weight
- couchsurfing
couchsurfing
14,400 corpus weight
- courvoisier
courvoisier
14,399 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cossue » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cossue |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kɔ.sy\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #85,599 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cossue » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cossue is uncommon French at frequency #85,599 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \kɔ.sy\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin singulier de cossu.".
Zero misspellings are on record for cossue in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is cossue, spelled C-O-S-S-U-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de cossu.
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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