coulomb
\ku.lɔ̃\
The verdict
“coulomb” is uncommon French (frequency #59,198 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,198
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Unité de charge électrique du Système international, égale à la quantité de charge transférée par un courant d’un ampère en une seconde. Son symbole est C.
Corpus desk
Index FR-coulomb · coulomb · French
coulomb · rank #59,198 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,198
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH coïncidant
Nearest frequency peer: coïncidant (+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 « coulomb »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- corridas
corridas
40,806 corpus weight
- cosmopoliti…
cosmopolitisme
40,805 corpus weight
- coulomb
coulomb
40,803 corpus weight
- coïncidant
coïncidant
40,802 corpus weight
- cpt
cpt
40,801 corpus weight
- Cronenberg
Cronenberg
40,800 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « coulomb » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | coulomb |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ku.lɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #59,198 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « coulomb » en français
Rare enough to double-check
coulomb is uncommon French at frequency #59,198 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ku.lɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Unité de charge électrique du Système international, égale à la quantité de charge transférée par un courant d’un ampère en une seconde. Son symbole est C.".
Zero misspellings are on record for coulomb in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is coulomb, spelled C-O-U-L-O-M-B.
Definition
- 1Unité de charge électrique du Système international, égale à la quantité de charge transférée par un courant d’un ampère en une seconde. Son symbole est C.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how coulomb appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le quantum de charge électrique est d’environ 1,602×10⁻¹⁹ coulomb.
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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