costal
\kɔs.tal\
The verdict
“costal” is uncommon French (frequency #79,187 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,187
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui a rapport aux côtes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-costal · costal · French
costal · rank #79,187 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,187
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH corons
Nearest frequency peer: corons (-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 « costal »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- coproducteur
coproducteur
20,817 corpus weight
- corderie
corderie
20,816 corpus weight
- corons
corons
20,815 corpus weight
- costal
costal
20,814 corpus weight
- costas
costas
20,813 corpus weight
- courbées
courbées
20,812 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « costal » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | costal |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kɔs.tal\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #79,187 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « costal » en français
Rare enough to double-check
costal is uncommon French at frequency #79,187 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \kɔs.tal\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for costal, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is costal, spelled C-O-S-T-A-L.
Definition
- 1Qui a rapport aux côtes.
- 2Avec le corps allongé sur le côté.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how costal appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’arc hémal des vertèbres costales est réduit aux hémapophyses ;
Nerfs costaux.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).