cusson
\ky.sɔ̃\
The verdict
“cusson” is uncommon French (frequency #81,937 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,937
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - (Sud-ouest de la France) Charançon xylophage.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cusson · cusson · French
cusson · rank #81,937 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,937
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH curseurs
Nearest frequency peer: curseurs (-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 « cusson »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- créationnis…
créationnistes
18,068 corpus weight
- cuisinant
cuisinant
18,067 corpus weight
- cuistots
cuistots
18,066 corpus weight
- curseurs
curseurs
18,065 corpus weight
- cusson
cusson
18,064 corpus weight
- cynégétique
cynégétique
18,063 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cusson » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cusson |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ky.sɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #81,937 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cusson » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cusson is uncommon French at frequency #81,937 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ky.sɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "(Sud-ouest de la France) Charançon xylophage.".
Zero misspellings are on record for cusson in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is cusson, spelled C-U-S-S-O-N.
Definition
- 1(Sud-ouest de la France) Charançon xylophage.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cusson appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
« Les voitures se sont mises dans Bordeaux comme les cussons dans un fauteuil Louis XVI » disait déjà Philippe Jullian.
Elles sont toujours là ces toiles d'araignées épaisses comme des voiles de veuves noires chargés de la poussière que font les cussons en mangeant les solives de la maison.
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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