coccyx

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for coccyx is 6 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɔk.sis\. Corpus data places it at rank #62,869 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Petit os des hominoïdes qui est comme un appendice de l’os sacrum, à l’extrémité duquel il est attaché, formé de quatre à six vertèbres coccygiennes soudées chez l’humain, vestige de la queue (appe...".

No misspelling variants are generated for coccyx in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

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 coccyx, spelled C-O-C-C-Y-X, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.