custode
\kys.tɔd\
The verdict
“custode” is uncommon French (frequency #87,512 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,512
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Moine inspecteur dans certains ordres religieux.
Corpus desk
Index FR-custode · custode · French
custode · rank #87,512 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,512
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cybercriminels
Nearest frequency peer: cybercriminels (+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 « custode »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Cunégonde
Cunégonde
12,492 corpus weight
- curateurs
curateurs
12,491 corpus weight
- custode
custode
12,489 corpus weight
- cybercrimin…
cybercriminels
12,488 corpus weight
- céphalique
céphalique
12,487 corpus weight
- dactylograp…
dactylographie
12,486 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « custode » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | custode |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kys.tɔd\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #87,512 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « custode » en français
Rare enough to double-check
custode is uncommon French at frequency #87,512 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kys.tɔd\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for custode in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is custode, spelled C-U-S-T-O-D-E.
Definition
- 1Moine inspecteur dans certains ordres religieux.
- 2Gardien de musée, d’église ou de monument historique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how custode appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On appelle aussi Custodes, quelques Supérieurs de certains Ordres de Religieux, comme Capucins, Cordeliers & autres. Ce sont ceux qui font l’office du Provincial en son absence. Chez les Récollets le Custode est Supérieur d’une petite maison où il y a peu de Religieux.
Plus étonnant encore, Catherine Millot relate qu’il lui est arrivé un jour de demander au custode de lui aporter une échelle pour voir de plus près sous le pied de la Vierge la trace du serpent. Interloqué – ou amusé –, le sacristain obtempéra.
This word in other languages
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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