curve
\kyʁv\
The verdict
“curve” is uncommon French (frequency #59,927 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,927
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Courbe.
Corpus desk
Index FR-curve · curve · French
curve · rank #59,927 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,927
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH curative
Nearest frequency peer: curative (-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 « curve »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cultuelle
cultuelle
40,077 corpus weight
- cumuls
cumuls
40,076 corpus weight
- curative
curative
40,075 corpus weight
- curve
curve
40,074 corpus weight
- cyborgs
cyborgs
40,073 corpus weight
- Dacca
Dacca
40,072 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « curve » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | curve |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kyʁv\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #59,927 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « curve » en français
Rare enough to double-check
curve is uncommon French at frequency #59,927 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \kyʁv\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Courbe.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for curve, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is curve, spelled C-U-R-V-E.
Definition
- 1Courbe.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how curve appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ces points peuvent être disposés par des lignes, des arcs, des lignes curves, et de nombreuses autres formes géométriques.
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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