couic
\kwik\
The verdict
“couic” is uncommon French (frequency #80,084 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an onomatopoeia. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,084
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Cri étranglé qui évoque la mort, souvent accompagné d’un geste montrant une torsion entre les deux mains, comme pour tordre le cou à une personne ou un animal.
Corpus desk
Index FR-couic · couic · French
couic · rank #80,084 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,084
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH coudonc
Nearest frequency peer: coudonc (-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 « couic »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cosses
cosses
19,920 corpus weight
- costumée
costumée
19,919 corpus weight
- coudonc
coudonc
19,918 corpus weight
- couic
couic
19,917 corpus weight
- Courcouronn…
Courcouronnes
19,916 corpus weight
- Cournon
Cournon
19,915 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « couic » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | couic |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Onomatopoeia |
| IPA | \kwik\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #80,084 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « couic » en français
Rare enough to double-check
couic is uncommon French at frequency #80,084 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anonomatopoeia, transcribed \kwik\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Cri étranglé qui évoque la mort, souvent accompagné d’un geste montrant une torsion entre les deux mains, comme pour tordre le cou à une personne ou un animal.".
Zero misspellings are on record for couic in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is couic, spelled C-O-U-I-C.
Definition
- 1Cri étranglé qui évoque la mort, souvent accompagné d’un geste montrant une torsion entre les deux mains, comme pour tordre le cou à une personne ou un animal.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how couic appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Quelques secondes de plus, disait mon ami, et, sans pouvoir protester, sans douleur, très gentiment, je sentais que j’allais faire couic.
— Oui, citoyens, je n’aurai vraiment rempli mes devoirs civiques, je ne me croirai digne de mon titre auguste de révolutionnaire que le jour où j’aurai, de ma propre main, fait faire couic à un aristocrate.
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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