Coumba
The verdict
“Coumba” is uncommon French (frequency #75,554 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,554
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prénom féminin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-coumba · Coumba · French
Coumba · rank #75,554 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,554
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cotre
Nearest frequency peer: cotre (-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 « Coumba »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cosson
cosson
24,451 corpus weight
- Costanza
Costanza
24,450 corpus weight
- cotre
cotre
24,448 corpus weight
- Coumba
Coumba
24,447 corpus weight
- coupage
coupage
24,446 corpus weight
- courraient
courraient
24,445 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Coumba » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Coumba |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #75,554 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Coumba » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Coumba is uncommon French at frequency #75,554 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Prénom féminin.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Coumba, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is Coumba, spelled C-O-U-M-B-A.
Definition
- 1Prénom féminin.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Coumba appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mardi 14 décembre, Coumba était absente de la grande finale de Koh-Lanta, La Légende.
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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