Coucy
\ku.si\
The verdict
“Coucy” is uncommon French (frequency #50,140 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,140
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune française, située dans le département des Ardennes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-coucy · Coucy · French
Coucy · rank #50,140 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,140
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH corrigez
Nearest frequency peer: corrigez (-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 « Coucy »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cordiales
cordiales
49,863 corpus weight
- corrigez
corrigez
49,862 corpus weight
- Coucy
Coucy
49,861 corpus weight
- coula
coula
49,860 corpus weight
- coupera
coupera
49,859 corpus weight
- couplés
couplés
49,858 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Coucy » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Coucy |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ku.si\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #50,140 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Coucy » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Coucy is uncommon French at frequency #50,140 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ku.si\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Coucy, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is Coucy, spelled C-O-U-C-Y.
Definition
- 1Commune française, située dans le département des Ardennes.
- 2Nom court couramment donné à la commune de Coucy-le-Château-Auffrique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Coucy appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sol peu accidenté : altitudes de 79 m. dans la vallée de l'Aisne près de Coucy, de 80 m. dans le vallon du ruisseau des prés à la limite septentrionale, de 102 m. sur le mamelon au nord de Coucy.
On ne put marcher réuni que lorsqu'on fut sorti de Rethel. On passa par Resson, Doux, Coucy, en s'avançant par la rive droite du ruisseau de Saulces, ruisseau qui tombe dans l'Aisne en face de Biermes, et remontant cette vallée.
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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