costas
\kˈɔʃ.tɐʃ\
The verdict
“costas” is uncommon French (frequency #79,188 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,188
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Dos.
Corpus desk
Index FR-costas · costas · French
costas · rank #79,188 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,188
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH costal
Nearest frequency peer: costal (-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 « costas »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- 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
- couvrons
couvrons
20,811 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « costas » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | costas |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kˈɔʃ.tɐʃ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #79,188 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « costas » en français
Rare enough to double-check
costas is uncommon French at frequency #79,188 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kˈɔʃ.tɐʃ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Dos.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for costas, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is costas, spelled C-O-S-T-A-S.
Definition
- 1Dos.
Synonyms
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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