cuesta
\kwɛs.ta\
The verdict
“cuesta” is uncommon French (frequency #77,397 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,397
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Forme du relief dissymétrique constituée d’un coté par un talus à profil concave en pente raide, et de l’autre, par un plateau doucement incliné en sens inverse.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cuesta · cuesta · French
cuesta · rank #77,397 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,397
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Currie
Nearest frequency peer: Currie (+2 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 « cuesta »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- croulent
croulent
22,608 corpus weight
- crématoire
crématoire
22,607 corpus weight
- cuesta
cuesta
22,604 corpus weight
- Currie
Currie
22,602 corpus weight
- curse
curse
22,601 corpus weight
- Cyrielle
Cyrielle
22,600 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cuesta » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cuesta |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kwɛs.ta\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #77,397 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cuesta » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cuesta is uncommon French at frequency #77,397 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kwɛs.ta\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Forme du relief dissymétrique constituée d’un coté par un talus à profil concave en pente raide, et de l’autre, par un plateau doucement incliné en sens inverse.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for cuesta, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is cuesta, spelled C-U-E-S-T-A.
Definition
- 1Forme du relief dissymétrique constituée d’un coté par un talus à profil concave en pente raide, et de l’autre, par un plateau doucement incliné en sens inverse.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cuesta appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les cuestas sont à trouver aux bordures des bassins sédimentaires peu déformés.
Si, au contraire, la différence de dureté entre la couche dure et la couche tendre est peu accentuée, aucune corniche ne se dessine ; la cuesta présente un profil convexe en haut, concave en bas, et se marque peu dans le paysage.
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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