coa
The verdict
“coa” is uncommon French (frequency #62,867 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,867
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Épithète de Clodia forgé par Caelius.
Corpus desk
Index FR-coa · coa · French
coa · rank #62,867 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,867
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH clinic
Nearest frequency peer: clinic (-1 rank slots)
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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « coa »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cler
cler
37,137 corpus weight
- clinic
clinic
37,135 corpus weight
- coa
coa
37,134 corpus weight
- coaxial
coaxial
37,133 corpus weight
- coccyx
coccyx
37,132 corpus weight
- Cocody
Cocody
37,131 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « coa » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | coa |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #62,867 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « coa » en français
Rare enough to double-check
coa is uncommon French at frequency #62,867 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Épithète de Clodia forgé par Caelius.".
coa has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is coa, spelled C-O-A.
Definition
- 1Épithète de Clodia forgé par Caelius.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how coa appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
in triclinio Coam, in cubiculo Nolam.
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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