coucous
\ku.ku\
The verdict
“coucous” is uncommon French (frequency #58,527 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,527
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de coucou.
Corpus desk
Index FR-coucous · coucous · French
coucous · rank #58,527 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,527
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH corr
Nearest frequency peer: corr (-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 « coucous »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cooking
cooking
41,477 corpus weight
- coordonnatr…
coordonnatrice
41,476 corpus weight
- corr
corr
41,475 corpus weight
- coucous
coucous
41,474 corpus weight
- Couderc
Couderc
41,473 corpus weight
- coutumières
coutumières
41,472 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « coucous » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | coucous |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ku.ku\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #58,527 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « coucous » en français
Rare enough to double-check
coucous is uncommon French at frequency #58,527 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ku.ku\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de coucou.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for coucous, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is coucous, spelled C-O-U-C-O-U-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de coucou.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how coucous appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ainsi les pittoresques coucous qui stationnaient sur la place de la Concorde en encombrant le Cours-la-Reine, les coucous si florissants pendant un siècle, si nombreux encore en 1830, n’existent plus ; et, par la plus attrayante solennité champêtre, à peine en aperçoit-on un sur la route en 1842.
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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