coudée
\ku.de\
The verdict
“coudée” is uncommon French (frequency #72,221 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,221
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Toute l’étendue du bras depuis le coude jusqu’au bout du doigt du milieu : environ 50 centimètres.
Corpus desk
Index FR-coudee · coudée · French
coudée · rank #72,221 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,221
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH couffin
Nearest frequency peer: couffin (+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 « coudée »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- contraster
contraster
27,784 corpus weight
- contreras
contreras
27,783 corpus weight
- copiez
copiez
27,782 corpus weight
- coudée
coudée
27,780 corpus weight
- couffin
couffin
27,779 corpus weight
- coulissantes
coulissantes
27,778 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « coudée » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | coudée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ku.de\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #72,221 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « coudée » en français
Rare enough to double-check
coudée is uncommon French at frequency #72,221 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ku.de\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for coudée, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is coudée, spelled C-O-U-D-É-E.
Definition
- 1Toute l’étendue du bras depuis le coude jusqu’au bout du doigt du milieu : environ 50 centimètres.
- 2Mesure de longueur prise sur l’étendue qu’il y a depuis le coude jusqu’au bout du doigt du milieu.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how coudée appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Avoir ses coudées franches, les coudées franches.
[…] que Vos Révérences continuent de suivre ce sentier jusqu’à ce qu’elles arrivent à une croix aux trois quarts enterrée et dont à peine il reste une coudée hors de terre […]
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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