curare
\ky.ʁaʁ\
The verdict
“curare” is uncommon French (frequency #78,313 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,313
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom donné à plusieurs substances extraites entre autres de certaines lianes d'Amazonie, notamment Chondodendron tomentosum et Strychnos toxifera, poison violent qui provoque une paralysie des muscl...
Corpus desk
Index FR-curare · curare · French
curare · rank #78,313 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,313
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cunni
Nearest frequency peer: cunni (-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 « curare »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cubistes
cubistes
21,691 corpus weight
- culminent
culminent
21,690 corpus weight
- cunni
cunni
21,689 corpus weight
- curare
curare
21,688 corpus weight
- cyclomoteur
cyclomoteur
21,686 corpus weight
- cyclotron
cyclotron
21,685 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « curare » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | curare |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ky.ʁaʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #78,313 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « curare » en français
Rare enough to double-check
curare is uncommon French at frequency #78,313 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ky.ʁaʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom donné à plusieurs substances extraites entre autres de certaines lianes d'Amazonie, notamment Chondodendron tomentosum et Strychnos toxifera, poison violent qui provoque une paralysie des muscl...".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for curare, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 curare, spelled C-U-R-A-R-E.
Definition
- 1Nom donné à plusieurs substances extraites entre autres de certaines lianes d'Amazonie, notamment Chondodendron tomentosum et Strychnos toxifera, poison violent qui provoque une paralysie des muscles en bloquant le passage du message nerveux au niveau de la plaque motrice, dont certaines peuplades de l’Amérique du Sud et les aborigènes se servent pour empoisonner leurs flèches et qui sert en médecine par exemple en anesthésie pour provoquer un relâchement musculaire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how curare appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
J'ai vilipendé Ambert et Issoire, seul de vous tous. J'ai tenu votre promesse commune. Mais une telle manifestation n'a pas d'efficacité. Des bouts-rimés ? Arme inoffensive. Je les voudrais enduits de curare.
Ben si c'est rare j'aime mieux les yeux rares de Lydia Que l'curare de Lucrèce Borgia
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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