Cointreau
/ˈkwæntɹəʊ/
"cointreau" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Cointreau” is uncommon English (frequency #97,951 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,951
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - An orange-flavoured triple sec liqueur produced in France.
Corpus desk
Index EN-cointreau · Cointreau · English
Cointreau · rank #97,951 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,951
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH colocation
Nearest frequency peer: colocation (+2 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Long-tail ranks near “Cointreau”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- cleeve
cleeve
2,053 corpus weight
- Cointreau
Cointreau
2,050 corpus weight
- colocation
colocation
2,048 corpus weight
- Coloma
Coloma
2,047 corpus weight
- colorimetric
colorimetric
2,046 corpus weight
- colourist
colourist
2,045 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Cointreau” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Cointreau |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /ˈkwæntɹəʊ/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #97,951 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Cointreau” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Cointreau is uncommon English at frequency #97,951 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /ˈkwæntɹəʊ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "An orange-flavoured triple sec liqueur produced in France.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Cointreau, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: Named after the Cointreau brothers, who set up a distillery in 1849 in Angers. The correct English form is Cointreau, spelled C-O-I-N-T-R-E-A-U.
Definition
- 1An orange-flavoured triple sec liqueur produced in France.
Etymology
Named after the Cointreau brothers, who set up a distillery in 1849 in Angers.
This word in other languages
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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