coutumières
\ku.ty.mjɛʁ\
The verdict
“coutumières” is uncommon French (frequency #58,529 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,529
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin pluriel de coutumier.
Corpus desk
Index FR-coutumieres · coutumières · French
coutumières · rank #58,529 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,529
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Couderc
Nearest frequency peer: Couderc (-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 « coutumières »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- corr
corr
41,475 corpus weight
- coucous
coucous
41,474 corpus weight
- Couderc
Couderc
41,473 corpus weight
- coutumières
coutumières
41,472 corpus weight
- coué
coué
41,471 corpus weight
- crackers
crackers
41,470 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « coutumières » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | coutumières |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ku.ty.mjɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #58,529 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « coutumières » en français
Rare enough to double-check
coutumières is uncommon French at frequency #58,529 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ku.ty.mjɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin pluriel de coutumier.".
coutumières doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is coutumières, spelled C-O-U-T-U-M-I-È-R-E-S.
Definition
- 1Féminin pluriel de coutumier.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how coutumières appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Rô, qui faisait de la chair des pauvres gens qu’elle surprenait chaque jour, de coutumières ripailles, n’était pas seulement une redoutable ennemie, mais, douée par surcroît d’une subtile intelligence et d’une perversion inexplicable, elle savait tendre aux riverains de la côte, pièges et trébuchets, afin qu’y tombassent les imprudents égarés loin du bour…
L’objectif est double (cf.supra) : en s’appuyant complètement sur les élites traditionnelles, musulmanes au Nord, chrétiennes ou coutumières au Sud, il s’agit de « désislamiser » le Sud et de « déségyptianiser » le Nord.
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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