cocardes
\kɔ.kaʁd\
The verdict
“cocardes” is uncommon French (frequency #96,760 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,760
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de cocarde.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cocardes · cocardes · French
cocardes · rank #96,760 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,760
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH coaguler
Nearest frequency peer: coaguler (-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 « cocardes »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- claveciniste
claveciniste
3,246 corpus weight
- clocharde
clocharde
3,243 corpus weight
- coaguler
coaguler
3,242 corpus weight
- cocardes
cocardes
3,241 corpus weight
- colchicine
colchicine
3,238 corpus weight
- collo
collo
3,237 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cocardes » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cocardes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ.kaʁd\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #96,760 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cocardes » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cocardes is uncommon French at frequency #96,760 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɔ.kaʁd\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de cocarde.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for cocardes in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is cocardes, spelled C-O-C-A-R-D-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de cocarde.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how cocardes appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sur une place qu’était cent fois plus grande que celle-ci, y avait peut-être cent mille bourgeoises à fabriquailler des cocardes bleues et rouges.
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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