couffin
\ku.fɛ̃\
The verdict
“couffin” is uncommon French (frequency #72,222 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,222
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Berceau de petite dimension facilement transportable.
Corpus desk
Index FR-couffin · couffin · French
couffin · rank #72,222 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,222
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH coudée
Nearest frequency peer: coudée (-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 « couffin »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- 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
- credible
credible
27,775 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « couffin » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | couffin |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ku.fɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #72,222 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « couffin » en français
Rare enough to double-check
couffin is uncommon French at frequency #72,222 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ku.fɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
couffin has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is couffin, spelled C-O-U-F-F-I-N.
Definition
- 1Berceau de petite dimension facilement transportable.
- 2Cabas.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how couffin appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Trois hommes et un couffin.
Elle marchait sur les genoux, arrachant activement l’ivraie qu’elle jetait dans un couffin.
Synonyms
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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