rancœurs
\ʁɑ̃.kœʁ\
The verdict
“rancœurs” is uncommon French (frequency #60,319 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,319
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de rancœur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ranc-urs · rancœurs · French
rancœurs · rank #60,319 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,319
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH ramassez
Nearest frequency peer: ramassez (-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 « rancœurs »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- rafraîchiss…
rafraîchissements
39,686 corpus weight
- ramassez
ramassez
39,684 corpus weight
- rancœurs
rancœurs
39,682 corpus weight
- rappellerait
rappellerait
39,680 corpus weight
- ratchet
ratchet
39,678 corpus weight
- ravier
ravier
39,677 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « rancœurs » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rancœurs |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁɑ̃.kœʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #60,319 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « rancœurs » en français
Rare enough to double-check
rancœurs is uncommon French at frequency #60,319 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʁɑ̃.kœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de rancœur.".
rancœurs doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is rancœurs, spelled R-A-N-C-Œ-U-R-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de rancœur.
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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