coûta
\ku.ta\
The verdict
“coûta” is uncommon French (frequency #56,522 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,522
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Terrain cultivé, sur la pente d'une colline.
Corpus desk
Index FR-couta · coûta · French
coûta · rank #56,522 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,522
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH craignos
Nearest frequency peer: craignos (+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 « coûta »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cornette
cornette
43,482 corpus weight
- coûta
coûta
43,479 corpus weight
- craignos
craignos
43,478 corpus weight
- craintive
craintive
43,477 corpus weight
- cramoisi
cramoisi
43,476 corpus weight
- critiquez
critiquez
43,475 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « coûta » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | coûta |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ku.ta\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #56,522 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « coûta » en français
Rare enough to double-check
coûta is uncommon French at frequency #56,522 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ku.ta\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Terrain cultivé, sur la pente d'une colline.".
No misspelling variants are generated for coûta in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is coûta, spelled C-O-Û-T-A.
Definition
- 1Terrain cultivé, sur la pente d'une colline.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how coûta appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…] ; je ferme mon logis, et bravement je vas à mon coûta, hors la ville, passé la dernière maison, sur la route de Beaumont.
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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