cott
"cott" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“cott” is uncommon English (frequency #73,993 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,993
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Obsolete spelling of cot (“simple bed”).
Corpus desk
Index EN-cott · cott · English
cott · rank #73,993 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,993
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH counterclaim
Nearest frequency peer: counterclaim (+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 “cott”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- corrin
corrin
26,012 corpus weight
- Cortlandt
Cortlandt
26,011 corpus weight
- cott
cott
26,008 corpus weight
- counterclaim
counterclaim
26,007 corpus weight
- Courteney
Courteney
26,005 corpus weight
- cowered
cowered
26,003 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “cott” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cott |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #73,993 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “cott” in English
Rare enough to double-check
cott is uncommon English at frequency #73,993 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Obsolete spelling of cot (“simple bed”).".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for cott, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is cott, spelled C-O-T-T.
Definition
- 1Obsolete spelling of cot (“simple bed”).
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how cott appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…] where did sit the King in state, at the upper end of such a Place as before was taken notice of, on a Cott, or Bed, strewed with a Quilt.
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).