cousue

/\ku.zy\/ noun

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#39,728

in French word usage

Misspellings

7

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

cousue is aFrenchnoun. It means: Cigarette industrielle, déjà roulée, par opposition à celle que l’on roule soi-même. Pronounced \ku.zy\. Often confused with coûte and couve.

Key facts for cousue
PropertyValue
Headwordcousue
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ku.zy\
Letters6
Frequency rank#39,728
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of cousue in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for cousue is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ku.zy\. Corpus data places it at rank #39,728 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Cigarette industrielle, déjà roulée, par opposition à celle que l’on roule soi-même.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for cousue, with forms such as "ccousue", "cosuue", and "couseu". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "coûte", "couve", "couvre", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is cousue, spelled C-O-U-S-U-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Cigarette industrielle, déjà roulée, par opposition à celle que l’on roule soi-même.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ccousue,cosuue,couseu,coussue,couuse,cuosue,ocusue

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for cousue

Misspelling Variants of "cousue"

ccousue7cosuue6couseu6coussue7couuse6cuosue6ocusue6
Misspelling Variants of "cousue"

Frequency rank: #39,728 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "cousue"?
"cousue" is spelled C-O-U-S-U-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ku.zy\.
What does "cousue" mean?
As a noun, "cousue" means: Cigarette industrielle, déjà roulée, par opposition à celle que l’on roule soi-même.
What words are commonly confused with "cousue"?
"cousue" is commonly confused with "coûte", "couve", "couvre". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "cousue"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "cousue" is \ku.zy\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "cousue" come from?
"cousue" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.