costières
\kɔs.tjɛʁ\
The verdict
“costières” is uncommon French (frequency #90,582 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,582
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de costière.
Corpus desk
Index FR-costieres · costières · French
costières · rank #90,582 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,582
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cotillon
Nearest frequency peer: cotillon (+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 « costières »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- convulsion
convulsion
9,423 corpus weight
- Corelli
Corelli
9,422 corpus weight
- costières
costières
9,419 corpus weight
- cotillon
cotillon
9,418 corpus weight
- coupantes
coupantes
9,417 corpus weight
- courbures
courbures
9,416 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « costières » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | costières |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔs.tjɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #90,582 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « costières » en français
Rare enough to double-check
costières is uncommon French at frequency #90,582 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɔs.tjɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de costière.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for costières, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is costières, spelled C-O-S-T-I-È-R-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de costière.
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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