cucurbitacées
\ky.kyʁ.bi.ta.se\
The verdict
“cucurbitacées” is uncommon French (frequency #89,580 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,580
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de cucurbitacée.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cucurbitacees · cucurbitacées · French
cucurbitacées · rank #89,580 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,580
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cuc
Nearest frequency peer: cuc (-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 « cucurbitacées »
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 « cucurbitacées » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cucurbitacées |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ky.kyʁ.bi.ta.se\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #89,580 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cucurbitacées » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cucurbitacées is uncommon French at frequency #89,580 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ky.kyʁ.bi.ta.se\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de cucurbitacée.".
Zero misspellings are on record for cucurbitacées in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. 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, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is cucurbitacées, spelled C-U-C-U-R-B-I-T-A-C-É-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de cucurbitacée.
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 13 letters (nearest by frequency rank).