# coffin

> English word · Noun · IPA /ˈkɒfɪn/ · frequency rank #9,582

## Definitions
1. A closed box in which the body of a dead person is placed for burial.
2. The eighth Lenormand card.
3. A casing or crust, or a mold, of pastry, as for a pie.
4. A conical paper bag, used by grocers.
5. The hollow crust or hoof of a horse's foot, below the coronet, in which is the coffin bone.
6. A storage container for nuclear waste.
7. A combination fence obstacle where the horse jumps a set of rails, strides downhill to a ditch, and then goes back uphill to another jump.

## Etymology
From Middle English coffyn, from Old Northern French cofin (“sarcophagus", earlier "basket, coffer”), from Latin cophinus (“basket”), a loanword from Ancient Greek κόφινος (kóphinos, “a basket”). Doublet of coffer.

## Easily confused with
- **coin** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/coffin-vs-coin)
- **Colin** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/coffin-vs-colin)
- **cousin** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/coffin-vs-cousin)
- **Corbin** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/coffin-vs-corbin)
- **Collin** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/coffin-vs-collin)
- **config** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/coffin-vs-config)
- **confine** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/coffin-vs-confine)
- **coffee** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/coffee-vs-coffin)
- **Cobain** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cobain-vs-coffin)
- **Coffey** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/coffey-vs-coffin)
- **Cochin** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cochin-vs-coffin)

## Common misspellings (7)
`ccoffin`, `cfofin`, `coffinn`, `coffni`, `cofifn`, `cofin`, `ocffin`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/coffin