couteliers
\ku.tə.lje\
The verdict
“couteliers” is uncommon French (frequency #97,821 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,821
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de coutelier.
Corpus desk
Index FR-couteliers · couteliers · French
couteliers · rank #97,821 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,821
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Courtemanche
Nearest frequency peer: Courtemanche (-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 « couteliers »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- 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
- Cronstadt
Cronstadt
2,177 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « couteliers » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | couteliers |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ku.tə.lje\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #97,821 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « couteliers » en français
Rare enough to double-check
couteliers is uncommon French at frequency #97,821 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ku.tə.lje\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de coutelier.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for couteliers in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file 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 couteliers, spelled C-O-U-T-E-L-I-E-R-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de coutelier.
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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