Coudray
\ku.dʁɛ\
The verdict
“Coudray” is uncommon French (frequency #53,233 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,233
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune française, située dans le département de l’Eure.
Corpus desk
Index FR-coudray · Coudray · French
Coudray · rank #53,233 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,233
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH corre
Nearest frequency peer: corre (-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 « Coudray »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Copacabana
Copacabana
46,771 corpus weight
- cordeau
cordeau
46,770 corpus weight
- corre
corre
46,769 corpus weight
- Coudray
Coudray
46,768 corpus weight
- CPP
CPP
46,767 corpus weight
- crawl
crawl
46,766 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Coudray » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Coudray |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ku.dʁɛ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #53,233 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Coudray » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Coudray is uncommon French at frequency #53,233 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ku.dʁɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Coudray, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is Coudray, spelled C-O-U-D-R-A-Y.
Definition
- 1Commune française, située dans le département de l’Eure.
- 2Commune française, située dans le département de la Mayenne.
- 3Ancienne commune française, située dans le département du Loiret intégrée à la commune du Malesherbois en janvier 2016.
- 4Quartier de Nantes, commune française de Loire-Atlantique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Coudray appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
« Elles sont bizarres, les questions », glousse un garçon dans une école primaire du Coudray, à Nantes, où une feuille un peu particulière a été distribuée aux 24 CM2.
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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