curistes
\ky.ʁist\
The verdict
“curistes” is uncommon French (frequency #76,475 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,475
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de curiste.
Corpus desk
Index FR-curistes · curistes · French
curistes · rank #76,475 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,475
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cups
Nearest frequency peer: cups (-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 « curistes »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cueillie
cueillie
23,529 corpus weight
- culminer
culminer
23,528 corpus weight
- cups
cups
23,527 corpus weight
- curistes
curistes
23,526 corpus weight
- Cusco
Cusco
23,525 corpus weight
- cétacé
cétacé
23,523 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « curistes » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | curistes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ky.ʁist\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #76,475 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « curistes » en français
Rare enough to double-check
curistes is uncommon French at frequency #76,475 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ky.ʁist\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de curiste.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for curistes, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. 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 curistes, spelled C-U-R-I-S-T-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de curiste.
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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