courvoisier
The verdict
“courvoisier” is uncommon French (frequency #85,602 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,602
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Cordonnier.
Corpus desk
Index FR-courvoisier · courvoisier · French
courvoisier · rank #85,602 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,602
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH couchsurfing
Nearest frequency peer: couchsurfing (-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 « courvoisier »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cossue
cossue
14,402 corpus weight
- cossus
cossus
14,401 corpus weight
- couchsurfing
couchsurfing
14,400 corpus weight
- courvoisier
courvoisier
14,399 corpus weight
- crachin
crachin
14,398 corpus weight
- cracra
cracra
14,397 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « courvoisier » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | courvoisier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #85,602 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « courvoisier » en français
Rare enough to double-check
courvoisier is uncommon French at frequency #85,602 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Cordonnier.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for courvoisier, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is courvoisier, spelled C-O-U-R-V-O-I-S-I-E-R.
Definition
- 1Cordonnier.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how courvoisier appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Bercelot de St Martin et Gillot son filz, courvoisiers (1369)
couvoisiers qui vendent soulers au marchié doivent chacun obole
Synonyms
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).