Coca-Cola
\kɔ.ka.kɔ.la\
The verdict
“Coca-Cola” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Boisson gazeuse sucrée, à base de noix de cola et d’extrait de feuilles de coca ; marque de soda de l'entreprise « The Coca-Cola Company ».
Corpus desk
Index FR-coca-cola · Coca-Cola · French
Coca-Cola · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "C" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Coca-Cola |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ.ka.kɔ.la\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Coca-Cola » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Coca-Cola is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɔ.ka.kɔ.la\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Boisson gazeuse sucrée, à base de noix de cola et d’extrait de feuilles de coca ; marque de soda de l'entreprise « The Coca-Cola Company ».".
Zero misspellings are on record for Coca-Cola in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 Coca-Cola, spelled C-O-C-A---C-O-L-A.
Definition
- 1Boisson gazeuse sucrée, à base de noix de cola et d’extrait de feuilles de coca ; marque de soda de l'entreprise « The Coca-Cola Company ».
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Coca-Cola appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il y a plusieurs années, certaines personnes croyaient que les salles de cinéma manipulaient les consommateurs en leur présentant des messages subliminaux, comme « Mangez un maïs éclaté » ou « Buvez un Coca-Cola ».
Ils trinquèrent, lui avec son verre de champigny et elle avec sa cannette de Coca-Cola.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.