costarde
\kɔs.taʁd\
The verdict
“costarde” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Crème anglaise, crème pâtissière.
Corpus desk
Index FR-costarde · costarde · French
costarde · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "C" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | costarde |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔs.taʁd\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « costarde » en français
Rare enough to double-check
costarde is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɔs.taʁd\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Crème anglaise, crème pâtissière.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for costarde, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is costarde, spelled C-O-S-T-A-R-D-E.
Definition
- 1Crème anglaise, crème pâtissière.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how costarde appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On ne connaît que le jello, la costarde et la macédoine de fruits délavée.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.