cocasse
\kɔ.kas\
The verdict
“cocasse” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #32,747. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #32,747
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 12
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est d’une drôlerie un peu bizarre, voire ridicule.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cocasse · cocasse · French
cocasse · rank #32,747 · 8 variants · 12 confusables
- FREQ-MID #32,747
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cirques
Nearest frequency peer: cirques (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « cocasse »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- cigale
cigale
67,257 corpus weight
- cime
cime
67,256 corpus weight
- cirques
cirques
67,255 corpus weight
- cocasse
cocasse
67,254 corpus weight
- colonisés
colonisés
67,253 corpus weight
- combe
combe
67,252 corpus weight
What this shows « cocasse » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cocasse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kɔ.kas\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #32,747 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « cocasse »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around cocasse (IPA \kɔ.kas\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #32,747 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qui est d’une drôlerie un peu bizarre, voire ridicule.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for cocasse, with forms such as "ccoasse", "ccocasse", and "coacsse". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 12 confusable-pair relationships, "cosse", "crasse", "colosse", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is cocasse, spelled C-O-C-A-S-S-E.
Definition
- 1Qui est d’une drôlerie un peu bizarre, voire ridicule.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cocasse appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On pourrait remplir des pages entières avec l’exposé sommaire des thèses contradictoires, cocasses et charlatanesques qui forment le fond des harangues de nos grands hommes ; rien ne les embarrasse […].
Et c’étaient encore, çà et là, de solennelles et de cocasses définitions telles que celle-ci qui figure dans la vie de César de Bus : […].
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccoasse
- ccocasse
- coacsse
- cocase
- cocases
- coccasse
- cocsase
- occasse
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cocasse - 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.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).