coquettish
"coquettish" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“coquettish” is uncommon English (frequency #91,381 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,381
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Of, being, or characteristic of a young, flirtatious girl.
Corpus desk
Index EN-coquettish · coquettish · English
coquettish · rank #91,381 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,381
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH corder
Nearest frequency peer: corder (+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 “coquettish”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- conveyer
conveyer
8,623 corpus weight
- cooed
cooed
8,622 corpus weight
- coquettish
coquettish
8,620 corpus weight
- corder
corder
8,619 corpus weight
- cordite
cordite
8,618 corpus weight
- CPN
CPN
8,616 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “coquettish” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | coquettish |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #91,381 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “coquettish” in English
Rare enough to double-check
coquettish is uncommon English at frequency #91,381 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Of, being, or characteristic of a young, flirtatious girl.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for coquettish in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From coquett(e) + -ish. The correct English form is coquettish, spelled C-O-Q-U-E-T-T-I-S-H.
Definition
- 1Of, being, or characteristic of a young, flirtatious girl.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how coquettish appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
'Is there that about me that should affright a man? Then surely are men changed from what they used to be!' And with a little coquettish movement she turned herself, and held up one arm, so as to show all her loveliness and the rich hair of raven blackness that streamed in soft ripples down her snowy robes, almost to her sandalled feet.
When Prince Andrew arrived at the house that evening, Maxwell was more coquettish than usual.
Etymology
From coquett(e) + -ish.
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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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