custos
The verdict
“custos” is uncommon French (frequency #97,833 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,833
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sacristain.
Corpus desk
Index FR-custos · custos · French
custos · rank #97,833 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,833
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Cully
Nearest frequency peer: Cully (-2 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 « custos »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- crénelées
crénelées
2,172 corpus weight
- crépusculai…
crépusculaires
2,171 corpus weight
- Cully
Cully
2,170 corpus weight
- custos
custos
2,168 corpus weight
- dace
dace
2,165 corpus weight
- daguerréoty…
daguerréotype
2,164 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « custos » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | custos |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #97,833 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « custos » en français
Rare enough to double-check
custos is uncommon French at frequency #97,833 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Sacristain.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for custos, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is custos, spelled C-U-S-T-O-S.
Definition
- 1Sacristain.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how custos appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le curé arrive, le custos (sacristain) aussi.
Nanette entend sa mère parlant du sacristain, le custos, qui, pour cause de nombreuse famille, était accusé d’avoir « l’ piquet ben v’nimoux ».
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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