cuc
\ˈkyk\
The verdict
“cuc” is uncommon French (frequency #89,579 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,579
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Obscur, sombre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cuc · cuc · French
cuc · rank #89,579 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,579
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cucurbitacées
Nearest frequency peer: cucurbitacées (+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 « cuc »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- crumb
crumb
10,426 corpus weight
- crénelée
crénelée
10,424 corpus weight
- cuc
cuc
10,422 corpus weight
- cucurbitacé…
cucurbitacées
10,421 corpus weight
- cuiseur
cuiseur
10,420 corpus weight
- cumes
cumes
10,419 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cuc » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cuc |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ˈkyk\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #89,579 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cuc » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cuc is uncommon French at frequency #89,579 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ˈkyk\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Obscur, sombre.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for cuc, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is cuc, spelled C-U-C.
Definition
- 1Obscur, sombre.
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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