cob
\kɔb\
The verdict
“cob” is uncommon French (frequency #50,727 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,727
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Cheval trapu.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cob · cob · French
cob · rank #50,727 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,727
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH coacher
Nearest frequency peer: coacher (-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 « cob »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- clemens
clemens
49,277 corpus weight
- Cléo
Cléo
49,276 corpus weight
- coacher
coacher
49,275 corpus weight
- cob
cob
49,274 corpus weight
- cocasses
cocasses
49,273 corpus weight
- collations
collations
49,272 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cob » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cob |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔb\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #50,727 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cob » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cob is uncommon French at frequency #50,727 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɔb\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Cheval trapu.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for cob in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is cob, spelled C-O-B.
Definition
- 1Cheval trapu.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cob appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On le citait partout et en toutes occasions, soit qu’il galopât son cob irlandais, le matin au Bois ; soit qu’il menât son attelage russe, l’après-midi.
Adroite et véhémente, elle saute sur le tapis. Debout, elle est pareille — large du rein, bien pourvue en fesse, le poitrail en portique — à un minuscule cob bai.
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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