couasne
The verdict
“couasne” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Bras mort dans le Périgord, en particulier de la Dordogne (rivière).
Corpus desk
Index FR-couasne · couasne · French
couasne · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "C" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | couasne |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
couasne is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Bras mort dans le Périgord, en particulier de la Dordogne (rivière).".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for couasne, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is couasne, spelled C-O-U-A-S-N-E.
Definition
- 1Bras mort dans le Périgord, en particulier de la Dordogne (rivière).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how couasne appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La couasne de Floirac.
Le 29 décembre 1771, vers le coucher du soleil, des bergers de la paroisse de Cazoulés découvrent au bout de la couasne de la Fonhaute deux cadavres de nouveau-nés.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.