coué
\kwe\
The verdict
“coué” is uncommon French (frequency #58,530 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,530
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui possède sa queue.
Corpus desk
Index FR-coue · coué · French
coué · rank #58,530 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,530
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH coutumières
Nearest frequency peer: coutumières (-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 « coué »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- coucous
coucous
41,474 corpus weight
- Couderc
Couderc
41,473 corpus weight
- coutumières
coutumières
41,472 corpus weight
- coué
coué
41,471 corpus weight
- crackers
crackers
41,470 corpus weight
- croissances
croissances
41,468 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « coué » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | coué |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kwe\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #58,530 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « coué » en français
Rare enough to double-check
coué is uncommon French at frequency #58,530 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \kwe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui possède sa queue.".
No misspelling variants are generated for coué in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is coué, spelled C-O-U-É.
Definition
- 1Qui possède sa queue.
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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