couchées
\ku.ʃe\
The verdict
“couchées” is uncommon French (frequency #61,422 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,422
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin pluriel de couché.
Corpus desk
Index FR-couchees · couchées · French
couchées · rank #61,422 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,422
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH coulera
Nearest frequency peer: coulera (+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 « couchées »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cornets
cornets
38,583 corpus weight
- corruptions
corruptions
38,581 corpus weight
- couchées
couchées
38,579 corpus weight
- coulera
coulera
38,578 corpus weight
- coupeurs
coupeurs
38,577 corpus weight
- courtisée
courtisée
38,576 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « couchées » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | couchées |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ku.ʃe\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #61,422 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « couchées » en français
Rare enough to double-check
couchées is uncommon French at frequency #61,422 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ku.ʃe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin pluriel de couché.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for couchées, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. 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.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is couchées, spelled C-O-U-C-H-É-E-S.
Definition
- 1Féminin pluriel de couché.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how couchées appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ces vins, quoique bien défermentés, prennent bien la mousse dans le Midi ; ils y casseraient même plus de bouteilles que dans le Nord, si on les tenaient constamment couchées.
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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