décousue
\de.ku.zy\
The verdict
“décousue” is uncommon French (frequency #71,452 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,452
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de décousu.
Corpus desk
Index FR-decousue · décousue · French
décousue · rank #71,452 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,452
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH déclina
Nearest frequency peer: déclina (-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 « décousue »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- décennal
décennal
28,552 corpus weight
- déchaînées
déchaînées
28,551 corpus weight
- déclina
déclina
28,550 corpus weight
- décousue
décousue
28,549 corpus weight
- décréta
décréta
28,548 corpus weight
- défavorable…
défavorablement
28,547 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « décousue » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | décousue |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \de.ku.zy\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #71,452 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « décousue » en français
Rare enough to double-check
décousue is uncommon French at frequency #71,452 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \de.ku.zy\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin singulier de décousu.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for décousue, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is décousue, spelled D-É-C-O-U-S-U-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de décousu.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how décousue appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il avait donc fini par se désencanailler, et lorsqu’arriva la Révolution, après trente ans d’une vie un peu décousue, mais qui, en trente autres années d’un travail acharné, il avait amassé assez d’argent pour rappeler fièrement aux libraires ce qu’ils lui devaient, et assez de considération pour ne se croire pas indigne d’entrer à l’Institut lorsque la C…
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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