couchettes
\ku.ʃɛt\
The verdict
“couchettes” is uncommon French (frequency #51,984 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,984
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de couchette.
Corpus desk
Index FR-couchettes · couchettes · French
couchettes · rank #51,984 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,984
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH coure
Nearest frequency peer: coure (+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 « couchettes »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cord
cord
48,021 corpus weight
- cordage
cordage
48,020 corpus weight
- coronaire
coronaire
48,019 corpus weight
- couchettes
couchettes
48,017 corpus weight
- coure
coure
48,016 corpus weight
- courons
courons
48,015 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « couchettes » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | couchettes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ku.ʃɛt\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #51,984 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « couchettes » en français
Rare enough to double-check
couchettes is uncommon French at frequency #51,984 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ku.ʃɛt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de couchette.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for couchettes, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is couchettes, spelled C-O-U-C-H-E-T-T-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de couchette.
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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