secoua
\sə.kwa\
The verdict
“secoua” is uncommon French (frequency #51,124 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,124
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de secouer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-secoua · secoua · French
secoua · rank #51,124 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,124
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sataniques
Nearest frequency peer: sataniques (-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 « secoua »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- sarkozystes
sarkozystes
48,880 corpus weight
- Sarreguemin…
Sarreguemines
48,879 corpus weight
- sataniques
sataniques
48,878 corpus weight
- secoua
secoua
48,877 corpus weight
- sectoriel
sectoriel
48,876 corpus weight
- semper
semper
48,875 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « secoua » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | secoua |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \sə.kwa\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #51,124 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « secoua » en français
Rare enough to double-check
secoua is uncommon French at frequency #51,124 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \sə.kwa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de secouer.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for secoua, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is secoua, spelled S-E-C-O-U-A.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de secouer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how secoua appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il secoua la tête : — Polop, fit-il, et, cette fois, sans accent barbaresque.
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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