cue
\kju\
The verdict
“cue” is uncommon French (frequency #66,635 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,635
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Positionner (une bande) à un endroit donné.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cue · cue · French
cue · rank #66,635 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,635
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH créditeurs
Nearest frequency peer: créditeurs (-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 « cue »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- croisais
croisais
33,369 corpus weight
- croquet
croquet
33,368 corpus weight
- créditeurs
créditeurs
33,367 corpus weight
- cue
cue
33,366 corpus weight
- cuts
cuts
33,365 corpus weight
- cyclonique
cyclonique
33,364 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cue » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cue |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kju\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #66,635 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cue » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cue is uncommon French at frequency #66,635 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \kju\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Positionner (une bande) à un endroit donné.".
cue has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is cue, spelled C-U-E.
Definition
- 1Positionner (une bande) à un endroit donné.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cue appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Cue la bande à votre position de départ souhaitée, de sorte qu'il est prêt pour la lecture immédiate.
Insérez la cassette VHS Disney à enregistrer dans votre magnétoscope et cue la bande jusqu'au point de départ, le rembobinage ou l'avancee rapide si nécessaire.
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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