Cuzco
\kus.ko\
The verdict
“Cuzco” is uncommon French (frequency #57,200 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,200
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ville importante du Pérou, ancienne capitale de l’empire inca.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cuzco · Cuzco · French
Cuzco · rank #57,200 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,200
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cuissardes
Nearest frequency peer: cuissardes (-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 « Cuzco »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- crusher
crusher
42,805 corpus weight
- cuissardes
cuissardes
42,802 corpus weight
- Cuzco
Cuzco
42,801 corpus weight
- cyberespace
cyberespace
42,800 corpus weight
- dara
dara
42,799 corpus weight
- dawa
dawa
42,797 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Cuzco » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Cuzco |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \kus.ko\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #57,200 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Cuzco » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Cuzco is uncommon French at frequency #57,200 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \kus.ko\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Ville importante du Pérou, ancienne capitale de l’empire inca.".
Cuzco doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is Cuzco, spelled C-U-Z-C-O.
Definition
- 1Ville importante du Pérou, ancienne capitale de l’empire inca.
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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