cocarde

/\kɔ.kaʁd\/ noun

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#48,987

in French word usage

Misspellings

10

tracked variants

Confusables

3

similar word pairs

cocarde is aFrenchnoun. It means: Insigne en étoffe ou en métal qui était porté principalement à la coiffure et surtout par les soldats. Pronounced \kɔ.kaʁd\. Often confused with cocasse and concorde.

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)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of cocarde in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for cocarde is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɔ.kaʁd\. Corpus data places it at rank #48,987 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for cocarde, with forms such as "ccoarde", "ccocarde", and "coacrde". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "cocasse", "concorde", "cocaine", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is cocarde, spelled C-O-C-A-R-D-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

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.

Synonyms

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ccoarde,ccocarde,coacrde,cocadre,cocardde,cocared,cocarrde,coccarde,cocrade,occarde

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for cocarde

Misspelling Variants of "cocarde"

ccoarde7ccocarde8coacrde7cocadre7cocardde8cocared7cocarrde8coccarde8
Misspelling Variants of "cocarde"

Frequency rank: #48,987 in French

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?
"cocarde" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.