coward
\ˈkaʊ.ɚd\
The verdict
“coward” is uncommon French (frequency #89,571 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,571
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Lâche, couard, peureux.
Corpus desk
Index FR-coward · coward · French
coward · rank #89,571 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,571
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH coverage
Nearest frequency peer: coverage (-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 « coward »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- courbature
courbature
10,434 corpus weight
- courront
courront
10,432 corpus weight
- coverage
coverage
10,431 corpus weight
- coward
coward
10,430 corpus weight
- CRISPR
CRISPR
10,428 corpus weight
- croupissent
croupissent
10,427 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « coward » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | coward |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈkaʊ.ɚd\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #89,571 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « coward » en français
Rare enough to double-check
coward is uncommon French at frequency #89,571 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈkaʊ.ɚd\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Lâche, couard, peureux.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for coward, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is coward, spelled C-O-W-A-R-D.
Definition
- 1Lâche, couard, peureux.
Synonyms
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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