coots
/kuːts/
"coots" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“coots” is uncommon English (frequency #59,297 among 43,570 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,297
- frequency rank, English
- 43,570
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - plural of coot
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | coots |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /kuːts/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #59,297 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “coots” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
coots is uncommon English at frequency #59,297 among 43,570 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /kuːts/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "plural of coot".
No generated misspelling entries exist for coots in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is coots, spelled C-O-O-T-S.
Definition
- 1plural of coot
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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Using “coots”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is C-O-O-T-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /kuːts/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.