cojones
/kəˈhoʊˌneɪs/
"cojones" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“cojones” is uncommon English (frequency #87,154 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,154
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Synonym of balls (“testicles; courage, masculinity”).
Corpus desk
Index EN-cojones · cojones · English
cojones · rank #87,154 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,154
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH colorfully
Nearest frequency peer: colorfully (+1 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 “cojones”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- clubman
clubman
12,854 corpus weight
- coadjutor
coadjutor
12,852 corpus weight
- Coghill
Coghill
12,849 corpus weight
- cojones
cojones
12,847 corpus weight
- colorfully
colorfully
12,846 corpus weight
- consigliere
consigliere
12,840 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “cojones” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cojones |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /kəˈhoʊˌneɪs/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #87,154 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “cojones” in English
Rare enough to double-check
cojones is uncommon English at frequency #87,154 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /kəˈhoʊˌneɪs/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Synonym of balls (“testicles; courage, masculinity”).".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for cojones, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Spanish cojones (“testicles, balls”). Doublet of cullion and culeus. The correct English form is cojones, spelled C-O-J-O-N-E-S.
Definition
- 1Synonym of balls (“testicles; courage, masculinity”).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cojones appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Stepping right into a trap... Your biggest problem is that you got big cojones but nothing in your brains. I think Freud would have something to say about your obsession with my big cojones.
The feisty wife of a world-renowned Russian sculptor emasculated an armed thug outside her Soho home — saying he “didn’t have the cojones to shoot her,” police sources said yesterday.
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish cojones (“testicles, balls”). Doublet of cullion and culeus.
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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