couder
French, verb/ku.de/
couder is spelled C-O-U-D-E-R (6 letters) and appears about once in every 17 million words in written French, the 135,114th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Couder is a French verb meaning “to fold elbow-shaped” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Plier en forme de coude”.
What does couder mean in English?
verb
- 1
to fold elbow-shaped
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Plier en forme de coude. 2. Tailler une pièce pour qu’elle puisse vêtir le coude.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of couder
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- coudant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- coudé participle past
- coude first-person indicative present
- coudes indicative present second-person
- coudons first-person indicative plural
- coudez indicative plural present
- coudent indicative plural present
- coudais first-person imperfect indicative
- coudait imperfect indicative singular
- coudions first-person imperfect indicative
- coudiez imperfect indicative plural
- coudaient imperfect indicative plural
- coudai first-person historic indicative
- coudas historic indicative past
- couda historic indicative past
- coudâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce couder?
- /ku.de/
- \ku.de\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is couder in French?
couder appears about once in every 17 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).