cuisent
\kɥiz\
The verdict
“cuisent” is uncommon French (frequency #69,734 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,734
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de cuire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cuisent · cuisent · French
cuisent · rank #69,734 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,734
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH CRP
Nearest frequency peer: CRP (-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 « cuisent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- crevard
crevard
30,270 corpus weight
- Crevel
Crevel
30,269 corpus weight
- CRP
CRP
30,268 corpus weight
- cuisent
cuisent
30,267 corpus weight
- culots
culots
30,266 corpus weight
- Cyprus
Cyprus
30,265 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cuisent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cuisent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kɥiz\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #69,734 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cuisent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cuisent is uncommon French at frequency #69,734 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \kɥiz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for cuisent, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is cuisent, spelled C-U-I-S-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de cuire.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de cuire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how cuisent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Avez-vous inventé des corsets mécaniques ou des biberons, des pompes à incendie ou des pare-crottes, des cheminées qui ne consomment pas de bois, ou des fourneaux qui cuisent les côtelettes avec trois feuilles de papier ?
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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