Coutinho
The verdict
“Coutinho” is uncommon French (frequency #57,854 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,854
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-coutinho · Coutinho · French
Coutinho · rank #57,854 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,854
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cotise
Nearest frequency peer: cotise (-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 « Coutinho »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cosinus
cosinus
42,150 corpus weight
- cosmologique
cosmologique
42,149 corpus weight
- cotise
cotise
42,148 corpus weight
- Coutinho
Coutinho
42,147 corpus weight
- crustacé
crustacé
42,145 corpus weight
- cub
cub
42,144 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Coutinho » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Coutinho |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #57,854 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Coutinho » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Coutinho is uncommon French at frequency #57,854 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Coutinho, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, 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 Coutinho, spelled C-O-U-T-I-N-H-O.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Coutinho appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Et l’ex-Barcelonais Coutinho trouvait le poteau (25’) !
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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).