Couesnon
\kwe.nɔ̃\
The verdict
“Couesnon” is uncommon French (frequency #96,791 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,791
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Petit fleuve côtier coulant dans les trois départements d’Ille-et-Vilaine, de la Manche et de la Mayenne et se jetant dans la Manche.
Corpus desk
Index FR-couesnon · Couesnon · French
Couesnon · rank #96,791 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,791
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cosmographie
Nearest frequency peer: cosmographie (-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 « Couesnon »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- convoquera
convoquera
3,215 corpus weight
- corrupteurs
corrupteurs
3,212 corpus weight
- cosmographie
cosmographie
3,211 corpus weight
- Couesnon
Couesnon
3,210 corpus weight
- coédition
coédition
3,208 corpus weight
- craquantes
craquantes
3,207 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Couesnon » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Couesnon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \kwe.nɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #96,791 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Couesnon » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Couesnon is uncommon French at frequency #96,791 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \kwe.nɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Petit fleuve côtier coulant dans les trois départements d’Ille-et-Vilaine, de la Manche et de la Mayenne et se jetant dans la Manche.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Couesnon, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Couesnon, spelled C-O-U-E-S-N-O-N.
Definition
- 1Petit fleuve côtier coulant dans les trois départements d’Ille-et-Vilaine, de la Manche et de la Mayenne et se jetant dans la Manche.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Couesnon appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sûrs de l’impunité, ils travaillèrent jusqu’à deux heures du matin à couper et à détruire les deux ponts sur le Couesnon, qui séparent les communes de Saint-Jean et de Saint-Marc-sur-Couesnon. La municipalité de Saint-Aubin-du-Cormier s’empressa, dès le lendemain, de faire rétablir ces deux ponts; […].
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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