cuis
\kɥi\
The verdict
“cuis” is uncommon French (frequency #65,831 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,831
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de cuire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cuis · cuis · French
cuis · rank #65,831 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,831
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cruautés
Nearest frequency peer: cruautés (-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 « cuis »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- croiseront
croiseront
34,173 corpus weight
- Crozet
Crozet
34,172 corpus weight
- cruautés
cruautés
34,171 corpus weight
- cuis
cuis
34,170 corpus weight
- cuissons
cuissons
34,169 corpus weight
- cultuel
cultuel
34,168 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cuis » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cuis |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kɥi\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #65,831 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cuis » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cuis is uncommon French at frequency #65,831 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \kɥi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for cuis, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is cuis, spelled C-U-I-S.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de cuire.
- 2Deuxième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de cuire.
- 3Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif de cuire.
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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