cuillers
\kɥi.jɛʁ\
The verdict
“cuillers” is uncommon French (frequency #73,876 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,876
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de cuiller.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cuillers · cuillers · French
cuillers · rank #73,876 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,876
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH CTT
Nearest frequency peer: CTT (-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 « cuillers »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cryogénique
cryogénique
26,128 corpus weight
- crypter
crypter
26,127 corpus weight
- CTT
CTT
26,126 corpus weight
- cuillers
cuillers
26,125 corpus weight
- cuivrée
cuivrée
26,124 corpus weight
- curation
curation
26,123 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cuillers » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cuillers |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɥi.jɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #73,876 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cuillers » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cuillers is uncommon French at frequency #73,876 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɥi.jɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de cuiller.".
cuillers has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is cuillers, spelled C-U-I-L-L-E-R-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de cuiller.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cuillers appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On entendait, du rez-de-chaussée au sixième, des bruits de vaisselle, des poêlons qu’on barbotait, des casseroles qu’on grattait avec des cuillers pour les récurer.
Ils firent ainsi trois fois le tour de la place ; dame Thérèse acheta tout ce qu’il lui fallait pour le ménage : une brosse à lessive, des cuillers en étain, une écumoire et d’autres objets semblables ; Hans Aden acheta une faux qui rendait un son clair et vibrant, des sabots et une étrille.
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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