coudé
\ku.de\
The verdict
“coudé” is uncommon French (frequency #77,385 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,385
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui fait le coude, qui a un coude.
Corpus desk
Index FR-coude · coudé · French
coudé · rank #77,385 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,385
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH corrélativeme…
Nearest frequency peer: corrélativement (-2 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 « coudé »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- corres
corres
22,620 corpus weight
- corresponds
corresponds
22,619 corpus weight
- corrélative…
corrélativement
22,618 corpus weight
- coudé
coudé
22,616 corpus weight
- coursive
coursive
22,614 corpus weight
- criants
criants
22,612 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « coudé » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | coudé |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ku.de\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #77,385 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « coudé » en français
Rare enough to double-check
coudé is uncommon French at frequency #77,385 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ku.de\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui fait le coude, qui a un coude.".
coudé has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 coudé, spelled C-O-U-D-É.
Definition
- 1Qui fait le coude, qui a un coude.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how coudé appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Beaucoup d’outils sont coudés.
Levier coudé.
This word in other languages
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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