cocarde

\kɔ.kaʁd\

/\kɔ.kaʁd\/ noun

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The verdict

“cocarde” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #48,987. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#48,987
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords
10
tracked misspellings
3
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Insigne en étoffe ou en métal qui était porté principalement à la coiffure et surtout par les soldats.

Corpus desk

Index FR-cocarde · cocarde · French

cocarde · rank #48,987 · 10 variants · 3 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #48,987
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
  • VAR-MID 10 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH claquée

Nearest frequency peer: claquée (-2 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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « cocarde »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « cocarde » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

cocarde vs cocasse
71% similar
cocarde vs concorde
75% similar
cocarde vs cocaine
71% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for cocarde
PropertyValue
Headwordcocarde
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\kɔ.kaʁd\
Letters7
Frequency rank#48,987
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs3
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « cocarde »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).cocardese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « claquée » (#48,985), « colla » (#48,989), « citadines » (#48,984). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « cocarde » est au #48,987. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 10 spelling variants around cocarde (IPA \kɔ.kaʁd\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #48,987 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 6 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for cocarde, with forms such as "ccoarde", "ccocarde", and "coacrde". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "cocasse", "concorde", "cocaine", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 cocarde, spelled C-O-C-A-R-D-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Insigne en étoffe ou en métal qui était porté principalement à la coiffure et surtout par les soldats.
  2. 2
    Ornement en ruban plissé dont on garnit les chapeaux de femme.
  3. 3
    Insigne de certaines livrées et de certains attelages.
  4. 4
    Boucle de tissu, située sur la tête d'un taureau, d'une vachette, que des joueurs tentent d'enlever.
  5. 5
    Badge (pour s’identifier).
  6. 6
    Naïve, niaise, prétentieuse, débauchée.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how cocarde appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. — Je vous avouerai, monsieur, que c’est pour la première fois que je vois dans mon salon la cocarde que vous portez ; mais je vous prie de l’y ramener souvent.
  2. Abraham Knupfer distingue son chapeau à trois cornes, ses aiguillettes de laine rouge, sa cocarde traversée d’une ganse, et sa queue nouée d’un ruban.

Synonyms

rosette

This word in other languages

cockade(English)cucarda(Español)Kokarde(Deutsch)roseta(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ccoarde
  • ccocarde
  • coacrde
  • cocadre
  • cocardde
  • cocared
  • cocarrde
  • coccarde
  • cocrade
  • occarde

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cocarde - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

ccoarde2ccocarde1coacrde2cocadre2cocardde1cocared2cocarrde1coccarde1
Edit distance from "cocarde"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "cocarde"?
"cocarde" is spelled C-O-C-A-R-D-E. The IPA pronunciation is \kɔ.kaʁd\.
What does "cocarde" mean?
As a noun, "cocarde" means: Insigne en étoffe ou en métal qui était porté principalement à la coiffure et surtout par les soldats.
What words are commonly confused with "cocarde"?
"cocarde" is commonly confused with "cocasse", "concorde", "cocaine". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "cocarde"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "cocarde" is \kɔ.kaʁd\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "cocarde" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "cocarde", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

claquée#48,985congélo#48,995causses#48,974Carlier#48,966

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).

Carlotta10 variantscroirez10 variantsdifforme10 variantsbordés10 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list