curée
\ky.ʁe\
The verdict
“curée” is uncommon French (frequency #62,184 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,184
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Portion de la bête que l’on donne aux chiens après sa prise.
Corpus desk
Index FR-curee · curée · French
curée · rank #62,184 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,184
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cumulative
Nearest frequency peer: cumulative (-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 « curée »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- crudité
crudité
37,820 corpus weight
- CSO
CSO
37,819 corpus weight
- cumulative
cumulative
37,818 corpus weight
- curée
curée
37,817 corpus weight
- customs
customs
37,816 corpus weight
- cuvettes
cuvettes
37,815 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « curée » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | curée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ky.ʁe\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #62,184 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « curée » en français
Rare enough to double-check
curée is uncommon French at frequency #62,184 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ky.ʁe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 6 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for curée, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is curée, spelled C-U-R-É-E.
Definition
- 1Portion de la bête que l’on donne aux chiens après sa prise.
- 2Fait de donner ces abats, moment où on la donne.
- 3Opération par laquelle on détruit une personne moralement et cruellement, en groupe.
- 4Pitance.
- 5Pillage des biens et des avoirs d’un vaincu.
- 6Butin généreux obtenu en profitant de la faiblesse d’autrui.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how curée appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Donner la curée aux chiens.
Curée de lièvre.
Synonyms
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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