courbée
\kuʁ.be\
The verdict
“courbée” is uncommon French (frequency #53,878 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,878
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de courbé.
Corpus desk
Index FR-courbee · courbée · French
courbée · rank #53,878 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,878
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cotisants
Nearest frequency peer: cotisants (-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 « courbée »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- corrélé
corrélé
46,126 corpus weight
- corti
corti
46,125 corpus weight
- cotisants
cotisants
46,124 corpus weight
- courbée
courbée
46,123 corpus weight
- cousus
cousus
46,122 corpus weight
- covenant
covenant
46,121 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « courbée » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | courbée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kuʁ.be\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #53,878 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « courbée » en français
Rare enough to double-check
courbée is uncommon French at frequency #53,878 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \kuʁ.be\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin singulier de courbé.".
courbée has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, 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, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is courbée, spelled C-O-U-R-B-É-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de courbé.
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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