courbés
\kuʁ.be\
The verdict
“courbés” is uncommon French (frequency #69,727 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,727
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de courbé.
Corpus desk
Index FR-courbes · courbés · French
courbés · rank #69,727 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,727
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH coupaient
Nearest frequency peer: coupaient (-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 « courbés »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cosmic
cosmic
30,277 corpus weight
- Cosne
Cosne
30,276 corpus weight
- coupaient
coupaient
30,275 corpus weight
- courbés
courbés
30,274 corpus weight
- Couvin
Couvin
30,272 corpus weight
- crasseuse
crasseuse
30,271 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « courbés » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | courbés |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kuʁ.be\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #69,727 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « courbés » en français
Rare enough to double-check
courbés is uncommon French at frequency #69,727 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \kuʁ.be\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Masculin pluriel de courbé.".
courbés doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is courbés, spelled C-O-U-R-B-É-S.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel 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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