cuissard
\kɥi.saʁ\
The verdict
“cuissard” is uncommon French (frequency #91,584 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,584
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Culotte collante d’un cycliste.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cuissard · cuissard · French
cuissard · rank #91,584 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,584
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH culver
Nearest frequency peer: culver (+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 « cuissard »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- croques
croques
8,421 corpus weight
- croupit
croupit
8,420 corpus weight
- crucifères
crucifères
8,419 corpus weight
- cuissard
cuissard
8,417 corpus weight
- culver
culver
8,416 corpus weight
- Cuny
Cuny
8,415 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cuissard » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cuissard |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɥi.saʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #91,584 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cuissard » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cuissard is uncommon French at frequency #91,584 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɥi.saʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for cuissard, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, 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 easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is cuissard, spelled C-U-I-S-S-A-R-D.
Definition
- 1Culotte collante d’un cycliste.
- 2Partie de l’armure qui couvrait les cuisses.
- 3Pièce à laquelle on fixe une jambe de bois.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cuissard appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un jeune homme… – traçons son portrait d’un seul trait de plume : — figurez-vous don Quichotte à dix-huit ans, don Quichotte décorcelé, sans haubert et sans cuissard, don Quichotte revêtu d’un pourpoint de laine dont la couleur bleue s’était transformée en une nuance insaisissable de lie-de-vin et d’azur céleste.
Après Alexandre, on chargea la cavalerie d’armes défensives; on donna aux cavaliers de lourdes cuirasses en écailles, puis des cuissarts et des gantelets, et aux chevaux des frontaux et des garde-flancs.
Synonyms
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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