couillu
\ku.jy\
The verdict
“couillu” is uncommon French (frequency #65,819 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,819
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui a de grosses couilles, de gros testicules.
Corpus desk
Index FR-couillu · couillu · French
couillu · rank #65,819 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,819
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH couine
Nearest frequency peer: couine (+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 « couillu »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- corser
corser
34,186 corpus weight
- cosmopolitan
cosmopolitan
34,184 corpus weight
- couillu
couillu
34,182 corpus weight
- couine
couine
34,181 corpus weight
- coulissante
coulissante
34,180 corpus weight
- coïncidait
coïncidait
34,178 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « couillu » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | couillu |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ku.jy\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #65,819 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « couillu » en français
Rare enough to double-check
couillu is uncommon French at frequency #65,819 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ku.jy\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
couillu doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file 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 couillu, spelled C-O-U-I-L-L-U.
Definition
- 1Qui a de grosses couilles, de gros testicules.
- 2Audacieux, osé, courageux.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how couillu appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Regarde-moi ce taureau, comme il est couillu.
Car Giacometti se foutait éperdument d’être le mâle qui réussit, tout, d’être le couillidé triomphant comme aurait dit ma Chloé (tout couillidé qui se respecte considérant qu’un homme qui erre ou qui échoue est un pauvre type, une chiffe, un minable, une lope, pour ne pas dire un moins que rien, et ne concevant d’autre modèle de – je cherchai une autre qu…
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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