couchais
\ku.ʃɛ\
The verdict
“couchais” is uncommon French (frequency #62,894 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,894
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait de coucher.
Corpus desk
Index FR-couchais · couchais · French
couchais · rank #62,894 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,894
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cosmogonie
Nearest frequency peer: cosmogonie (-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 « couchais »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Corrado
Corrado
37,111 corpus weight
- Corées
Corées
37,109 corpus weight
- cosmogonie
cosmogonie
37,108 corpus weight
- couchais
couchais
37,107 corpus weight
- coulaient
coulaient
37,106 corpus weight
- couvrirait
couvrirait
37,105 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « couchais » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | couchais |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ku.ʃɛ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #62,894 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « couchais » en français
Rare enough to double-check
couchais is uncommon French at frequency #62,894 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ku.ʃɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for couchais in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is couchais, spelled C-O-U-C-H-A-I-S.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait de coucher.
- 2Deuxième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait de coucher.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how couchais appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il n’est rentré rue de Courty qu’à 8 h du soir, je m’y couchais pour me décarapater mardi à 8h1/2 de façon à pouvoir rentrer dîner et coucher.
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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