Cusco
\kus.ko\
The verdict
“Cusco” is uncommon French (frequency #76,476 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,476
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variante orthographique de Cuzco, ville du Pérou.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cusco · Cusco · French
Cusco · rank #76,476 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,476
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH curistes
Nearest frequency peer: curistes (-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 « Cusco »
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 « Cusco » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Cusco |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \kus.ko\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #76,476 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Cusco » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Cusco is uncommon French at frequency #76,476 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \kus.ko\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Variante orthographique de Cuzco, ville du Pérou.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Cusco, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is Cusco, spelled C-U-S-C-O.
Definition
- 1Variante orthographique de Cuzco, ville du Pérou.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Cusco appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le bonheur tant cherché sur la terre et sur l'onde Est ici comme aux lieux où mûrit le coco, Et se trouve à Paris de même qu'à Cusco : On ne le tire point des veines du Potose.
L’aînée, Aurélie, était morte en couches, à peu près au bout d’un an, c’est-à-dire en 68. La seconde, Mathilde, avait quitté Lima pour suivre son mari, négociant à Cusco.
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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