customs
\kœs.tɔm\
The verdict
“customs” is uncommon French (frequency #62,185 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,185
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de custom.
Corpus desk
Index FR-customs · customs · French
customs · rank #62,185 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,185
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH curée
Nearest frequency peer: curée (-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 « customs »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- CSO
CSO
37,819 corpus weight
- cumulative
cumulative
37,818 corpus weight
- curée
curée
37,817 corpus weight
- customs
customs
37,816 corpus weight
- cuvettes
cuvettes
37,815 corpus weight
- cyniquement
cyniquement
37,814 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « customs » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | customs |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kœs.tɔm\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #62,185 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « customs » en français
Rare enough to double-check
customs is uncommon French at frequency #62,185 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kœs.tɔm\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de custom.".
No misspelling variants are generated for customs in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is customs, spelled C-U-S-T-O-M-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de custom.
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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