costards
\kɔs.taʁ\
The verdict
“costards” is uncommon French (frequency #57,186 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,186
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de costard.
Corpus desk
Index FR-costards · costards · French
costards · rank #57,186 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,186
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH corporatifs
Nearest frequency peer: corporatifs (-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 « costards »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- contingences
contingences
42,818 corpus weight
- continuée
continuée
42,817 corpus weight
- corporatifs
corporatifs
42,816 corpus weight
- costards
costards
42,815 corpus weight
- couacs
couacs
42,814 corpus weight
- courtise
courtise
42,813 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « costards » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | costards |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔs.taʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #57,186 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « costards » en français
Rare enough to double-check
costards is uncommon French at frequency #57,186 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɔs.taʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de costard.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for costards, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is costards, spelled C-O-S-T-A-R-D-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de costard.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how costards appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dans la penderie de ma chambre, ma bonne valise était prête, comme toujours, avec les trois costards, les six limaces, et le toutim; le petit nécessaire de l’homme en cavale, et puis, en dessous, deux bonnes briques en talbins de dix mille, tout neufs, que j’avais été le jour même retirer de mon coffre.
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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