couguar
\ku.ɡaʁ\
The verdict
“couguar” is uncommon French (frequency #95,753 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,753
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Autre nom du puma.
Corpus desk
Index FR-couguar · couguar · French
couguar · rank #95,753 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,753
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cotillons
Nearest frequency peer: cotillons (-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 « couguar »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- corroborées
corroborées
4,251 corpus weight
- cosmologiqu…
cosmologiques
4,250 corpus weight
- cotillons
cotillons
4,249 corpus weight
- couguar
couguar
4,248 corpus weight
- couperont
couperont
4,247 corpus weight
- courlis
courlis
4,246 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « couguar » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | couguar |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ku.ɡaʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #95,753 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « couguar » en français
Rare enough to double-check
couguar is uncommon French at frequency #95,753 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ku.ɡaʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Autre nom du puma.".
couguar doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is couguar, spelled C-O-U-G-U-A-R.
Definition
- 1Autre nom du puma.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how couguar appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Tout en songeant à la fille qui gît près des marécages, il entend le cri d’un couguar et une oie sauvage le survole.
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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