curial
\ky.ʁjal\
The verdict
“curial” is uncommon French (frequency #96,803 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,803
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui concerne une cure ou une fonction de curé.
Corpus desk
Index FR-curial · curial · French
curial · rank #96,803 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,803
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH culée
Nearest frequency peer: culée (-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 « curial »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
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criteria
3,202 corpus weight
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croustilles
3,200 corpus weight
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culée
3,199 corpus weight
- curial
curial
3,198 corpus weight
- currently
currently
3,197 corpus weight
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Céphalonie
3,195 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « curial » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | curial |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ky.ʁjal\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #96,803 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « curial » en français
Rare enough to double-check
curial is uncommon French at frequency #96,803 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ky.ʁjal\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui concerne une cure ou une fonction de curé.".
curial has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored 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 curial, spelled C-U-R-I-A-L.
Definition
- 1Qui concerne une cure ou une fonction de curé.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how curial appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Courcelle s’en prend au père Charles Albanel qui exerce au fort les fonctions curiales.
Droits curiaux.
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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