cuise
\kɥiz\
The verdict
“cuise” is uncommon French (frequency #98,932 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #98,932
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de cuire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cuise · cuise · French
cuise · rank #98,932 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #98,932
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cultivar
Nearest frequency peer: cultivar (+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 « cuise »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cryptologie
cryptologie
1,073 corpus weight
- crèvecœur
crèvecœur
1,072 corpus weight
- crétoise
crétoise
1,071 corpus weight
- cuise
cuise
1,069 corpus weight
- cultivar
cultivar
1,068 corpus weight
- cumulard
cumulard
1,067 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cuise » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cuise |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kɥiz\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #98,932 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cuise » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cuise is uncommon French at frequency #98,932 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \kɥiz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
cuise has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is cuise, spelled C-U-I-S-E.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de cuire.
- 2Troisième personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif 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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