curaçao
\ky.ʁa.so\
The verdict
“curaçao” is uncommon French (frequency #61,437 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,437
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Liqueur préparée avec de l’eau-de-vie, de l’écorce d’oranges amères (ou bigarade) et du sucre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-curacao · curaçao · French
curaçao · rank #61,437 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,437
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cucul
Nearest frequency peer: cucul (-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 « curaçao »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cruches
cruches
38,568 corpus weight
- crémant
crémant
38,567 corpus weight
- Créon
Créon
38,566 corpus weight
- cucul
cucul
38,565 corpus weight
- curaçao
curaçao
38,564 corpus weight
- cyrillique
cyrillique
38,562 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « curaçao » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | curaçao |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ky.ʁa.so\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #61,437 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « curaçao » en français
Rare enough to double-check
curaçao is uncommon French at frequency #61,437 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ky.ʁa.so\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for curaçao, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. 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.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is curaçao, spelled C-U-R-A-Ç-A-O.
Definition
- 1Liqueur préparée avec de l’eau-de-vie, de l’écorce d’oranges amères (ou bigarade) et du sucre.
- 2Orange amère de l’île de Curaçao.
- 3Couleur.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how curaçao appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Elle alla chercher dans l’armoire une bouteille de curaçao, atteignit deux petits verres, emplit l’un jusqu’au bord, versa à peine dans l’autre, et après avoir trinqué, le porta à sa bouche.
Mistingue, lui versant un plein verre de curaçao.– Avale-moi ça… c’est un velours. Lenglumé, vidant le verre d’un trait.– Mais c’est du curaçao ! Mistingue.– De Hollande ! Lenglumé.– C’est doux… ah ! ça fait du bien ! Mistingue.– Ça donne du ton.
This word in other languages
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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