coutelas
\ku.tlɑ\
The verdict
“coutelas” is uncommon French (frequency #93,640 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #93,640
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Grand couteau de cuisine.
Corpus desk
Index FR-coutelas · coutelas · French
coutelas · rank #93,640 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #93,640
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH counting
Nearest frequency peer: counting (-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 « coutelas »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- corrective
corrective
6,365 corpus weight
- cortical
cortical
6,364 corpus weight
- counting
counting
6,362 corpus weight
- coutelas
coutelas
6,361 corpus weight
- CPIE
CPIE
6,359 corpus weight
- craignions
craignions
6,358 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « coutelas » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | coutelas |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ku.tlɑ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #93,640 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « coutelas » en français
Rare enough to double-check
coutelas is uncommon French at frequency #93,640 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ku.tlɑ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for coutelas in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. 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 borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is coutelas, spelled C-O-U-T-E-L-A-S.
Definition
- 1Grand couteau de cuisine.
- 2Meuble représentant l’arme du même nom dans les armoiries. À rapprocher de badelaire, couteau, cimeterre, épée, kriss, rapière et sabre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how coutelas appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La première scène qui s'offre à nos yeux est une scène de carnage : des hommes roux, aux cheveux incultes, armés de coutelas, les bras nus et rouges de sang, éventrent des morues fraîches et les décapitent […]
D’azur, à une palme d’or et un coutelas d’argent emmanché d’or passés en sautoir, accompagné en chef d’un "E" couronné d’or et de trois fleurs de lis du même aux autres cantons, qui est de Saint-Savin de la Vienne → voir illustration « armoiries avec un coutelas »
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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