couchsurfing
\koːtʃ.sœʁ.fiŋ\
The verdict
“couchsurfing” is uncommon French (frequency #85,601 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,601
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Activité d’accueillir ou de loger chez une personne gratuitement.
Corpus desk
Index FR-couchsurfing · couchsurfing · French
couchsurfing · rank #85,601 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,601
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cossus
Nearest frequency peer: cossus (-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 « couchsurfing »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- coronarien
coronarien
14,403 corpus weight
- cossue
cossue
14,402 corpus weight
- cossus
cossus
14,401 corpus weight
- couchsurfing
couchsurfing
14,400 corpus weight
- courvoisier
courvoisier
14,399 corpus weight
- crachin
crachin
14,398 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « couchsurfing » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | couchsurfing |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \koːtʃ.sœʁ.fiŋ\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #85,601 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « couchsurfing » en français
Rare enough to double-check
couchsurfing is uncommon French at frequency #85,601 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \koːtʃ.sœʁ.fiŋ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Activité d’accueillir ou de loger chez une personne gratuitement.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for couchsurfing, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is couchsurfing, spelled C-O-U-C-H-S-U-R-F-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1Activité d’accueillir ou de loger chez une personne gratuitement.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how couchsurfing appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Comment s’est déroulé ton couchsurfing de la semaine passée ?
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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