narcos
\naʁ.ko\
The verdict
“narcos” is uncommon French (frequency #52,862 among 1,563 “N” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,862
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de narco.
Corpus desk
Index FR-narcos · narcos · French
narcos · rank #52,862 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,862
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH nanti
Nearest frequency peer: nanti (-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 « narcos »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- métisses
métisses
47,143 corpus weight
- nacer
nacer
47,142 corpus weight
- Nanteuil
Nanteuil
47,141 corpus weight
- nanti
nanti
47,140 corpus weight
- narcos
narcos
47,139 corpus weight
- neutralisés
neutralisés
47,137 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « narcos » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | narcos |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \naʁ.ko\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #52,862 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « narcos » en français
Rare enough to double-check
narcos is uncommon French at frequency #52,862 among 1,563 “N” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \naʁ.ko\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de narco.".
narcos doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is narcos, spelled N-A-R-C-O-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de narco.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how narcos appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On ne comprend pas non plus les réticences, voire l’hostilité du commandant de police local, le colonel Flavio Acosta, chaque fois que ses supérieurs lui demandent d’agir contre les narcos.
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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