couacs
\kwak\
The verdict
“couacs” is uncommon French (frequency #57,187 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,187
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de couac.
Corpus desk
Index FR-couacs · couacs · French
couacs · rank #57,187 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,187
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH costards
Nearest frequency peer: costards (-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 « couacs »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- 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
- coûtaient
coûtaient
42,812 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « couacs » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | couacs |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kwak\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #57,187 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « couacs » en français
Rare enough to double-check
couacs is uncommon French at frequency #57,187 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kwak\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de couac.".
Zero misspellings are on record for couacs in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is couacs, spelled C-O-U-A-C-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de couac.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how couacs appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La fanfare l’avait épargné, serpentante et alignée, et les couacs qu’il avait notés au passage ne lui étaient pas spécialement destinés.
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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