Courtemanche
\kuʁ.tə.mɑ̃ʃ\
The verdict
“Courtemanche” is uncommon French (frequency #97,820 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,820
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-courtemanche · Courtemanche · French
Courtemanche · rank #97,820 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,820
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH couteliers
Nearest frequency peer: couteliers (+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 « Courtemanche »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- corrigeait
corrigeait
2,184 corpus weight
- Corus
Corus
2,183 corpus weight
- Courtemanche
Courtemanche
2,181 corpus weight
- couteliers
couteliers
2,180 corpus weight
- Coutras
Coutras
2,179 corpus weight
- couvées
couvées
2,178 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Courtemanche » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Courtemanche |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \kuʁ.tə.mɑ̃ʃ\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #97,820 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Courtemanche » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Courtemanche is uncommon French at frequency #97,820 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \kuʁ.tə.mɑ̃ʃ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
Courtemanche doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Courtemanche, spelled C-O-U-R-T-E-M-A-N-C-H-E.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
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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