curious
\ˈkjʊə.ɹi.əs\
The verdict
“curious” is uncommon French (frequency #65,836 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,836
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Curieux.
Corpus desk
Index FR-curious · curious · French
curious · rank #65,836 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,836
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cunéiforme
Nearest frequency peer: cunéiforme (-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 « curious »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cultuel
cultuel
34,168 corpus weight
- cuni
cuni
34,167 corpus weight
- cunéiforme
cunéiforme
34,166 corpus weight
- curious
curious
34,165 corpus weight
- cyan
cyan
34,164 corpus weight
- cénotaphe
cénotaphe
34,163 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « curious » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | curious |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ˈkjʊə.ɹi.əs\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #65,836 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « curious » en français
Rare enough to double-check
curious is uncommon French at frequency #65,836 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ˈkjʊə.ɹi.əs\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Curieux.".
curious doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is curious, spelled C-U-R-I-O-U-S.
Definition
- 1Curieux.
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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