cuticules
\ky.ti.kyl\
The verdict
“cuticules” is uncommon French (frequency #95,771 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,771
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de cuticule.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cuticules · cuticules · French
cuticules · rank #95,771 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,771
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH customisée
Nearest frequency peer: customisée (-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 « cuticules »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cultissime
cultissime
4,233 corpus weight
- cumulards
cumulards
4,232 corpus weight
- customisée
customisée
4,231 corpus weight
- cuticules
cuticules
4,230 corpus weight
- cyanobactér…
cyanobactéries
4,228 corpus weight
- cédérom
cédérom
4,227 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cuticules » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cuticules |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ky.ti.kyl\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #95,771 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cuticules » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cuticules is uncommon French at frequency #95,771 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ky.ti.kyl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de cuticule.".
cuticules has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is cuticules, spelled C-U-T-I-C-U-L-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de cuticule.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how cuticules appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
23 pots de crème pour le corps, le visage, les mains, les pieds, spéciale contour des yeux, spéciale cuticules, anti-cellulite, amincissante, repulpante, à l’acide hyaluronique, aux tenseurs actifs.
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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