couard
\kwaʁ\
The verdict
“couard” is uncommon French (frequency #78,302 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,302
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est poltron, qui n’a pas de courage.
Corpus desk
Index FR-couard · couard · French
couard · rank #78,302 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,302
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH coureuses
Nearest frequency peer: coureuses (+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 « couard »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- corrupteur
corrupteur
21,702 corpus weight
- cosmetics
cosmetics
21,701 corpus weight
- couard
couard
21,699 corpus weight
- coureuses
coureuses
21,698 corpus weight
- covoit
covoit
21,697 corpus weight
- cranberries
cranberries
21,696 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « couard » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | couard |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kwaʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #78,302 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « couard » en français
Rare enough to double-check
couard is uncommon French at frequency #78,302 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \kwaʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui est poltron, qui n’a pas de courage.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for couard, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. 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.
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 couard, spelled C-O-U-A-R-D.
Definition
- 1Qui est poltron, qui n’a pas de courage.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how couard appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les orgueilleux fait humbles & courtois devenir, les couards faits hardis, & par contraires les hardis fait couards
Ce ne sont pas les ripoux qui la protégeront, tous des couards, des corrompus!
This word in other languages
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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