cocagne
\kɔ.kaɲ\
The verdict
“cocagne” is uncommon French (frequency #59,895 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,895
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Temps de réjouissance où l’on boit et mange abondamment.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cocagne · cocagne · French
cocagne · rank #59,895 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,895
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cocus
Nearest frequency peer: cocus (+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 « cocagne »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- climatiseurs
climatiseurs
40,109 corpus weight
- climatologue
climatologue
40,108 corpus weight
- cocagne
cocagne
40,106 corpus weight
- cocus
cocus
40,105 corpus weight
- cogneur
cogneur
40,104 corpus weight
- cogénération
cogénération
40,103 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cocagne » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cocagne |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ.kaɲ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #59,895 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cocagne » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cocagne is uncommon French at frequency #59,895 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɔ.kaɲ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Temps de réjouissance où l’on boit et mange abondamment.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for cocagne in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is cocagne, spelled C-O-C-A-G-N-E.
Definition
- 1Temps de réjouissance où l’on boit et mange abondamment.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cocagne appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je vois des vaiſſeaux ſur cette mer [la mer Noire], des villes ſur les bords, des cocagnes pour un peuple immenſe, des feux d’artifice et tous les miracles de l’opéra réunis.
Ouvre à la chatte, elle sait aussi que midi approche. Tous les jours, elle a peur, après sa promenade matinale, de me retrouver guérie. Dormir sur mon lit, la nuit et le jour, quelle vie de Cocagne pour elle !
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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