Coville
The verdict
“Coville” is uncommon French (frequency #73,862 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,862
- 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-coville · Coville · French
Coville · rank #73,862 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,862
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH coupelles
Nearest frequency peer: coupelles (-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 « Coville »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- couds
couds
26,143 corpus weight
- coulage
coulage
26,142 corpus weight
- coupelles
coupelles
26,140 corpus weight
- Coville
Coville
26,139 corpus weight
- crado
crado
26,137 corpus weight
- cramés
cramés
26,136 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Coville » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Coville |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #73,862 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Coville » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Coville is uncommon French at frequency #73,862 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Coville in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is Coville, spelled C-O-V-I-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Coville appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dimanche à 20 heures, Caudrelier comptait 60 milles nautiques d’avance sur son poursuivant et 113 sur Thomas Coville, qui n’a pas dit son dernier mot.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).