cus
\ˈkus\
The verdict
“cus” is uncommon French (frequency #70,513 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,513
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de cosir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cus · cus · French
cus · rank #70,513 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,513
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cuevas
Nearest frequency peer: cuevas (-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 « cus »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- crozier
crozier
29,491 corpus weight
- cuevas
cuevas
29,489 corpus weight
- cus
cus
29,488 corpus weight
- cutie
cutie
29,487 corpus weight
- cyclotouris…
cyclotourisme
29,486 corpus weight
- damoiseau
damoiseau
29,485 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cus » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cus |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ˈkus\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #70,513 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cus » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cus is uncommon French at frequency #70,513 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ˈkus\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for cus in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is cus, spelled C-U-S.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de cosir.
- 2Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif de cosir.
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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