couine
\kwin\
The verdict
“couine” is uncommon French (frequency #65,820 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,820
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de couiner.
Corpus desk
Index FR-couine · couine · French
couine · rank #65,820 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,820
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH couillu
Nearest frequency peer: couillu (-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 « couine »
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 « couine » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | couine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kwin\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #65,820 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « couine » en français
Rare enough to double-check
couine is uncommon French at frequency #65,820 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \kwin\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for couine, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is couine, spelled C-O-U-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de couiner.
- 2Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de couiner.
- 3Première personne du singulier du subjonctif présent de couiner.
- 4Troisième personne du singulier du subjonctif présent de couiner.
- 5Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif de couiner.
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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