coy
\kɔɪ\
The verdict
“coy” is uncommon French (frequency #75,559 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,559
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Timide
Corpus desk
Index FR-coy · coy · French
coy · rank #75,559 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,559
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH craigne
Nearest frequency peer: craigne (+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 « coy »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Coumba
Coumba
24,447 corpus weight
- coupage
coupage
24,446 corpus weight
- courraient
courraient
24,445 corpus weight
- coy
coy
24,442 corpus weight
- craigne
craigne
24,441 corpus weight
- crieront
crieront
24,440 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « coy » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | coy |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kɔɪ\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #75,559 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « coy » en français
Rare enough to double-check
coy is uncommon French at frequency #75,559 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \kɔɪ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for coy in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is coy, spelled C-O-Y.
Definition
- 1Timide
- 2Calme, réservé, modeste.
- 3Réticent, prude.
- 4Timidité, modestie.
- 5Doux, modéré, hésitant.
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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