cochenilles
\kɔʃ.nil\
The verdict
“cochenilles” is uncommon French (frequency #79,166 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,166
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de cochenille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cochenilles · cochenilles · French
cochenilles · rank #79,166 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,166
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH coaster
Nearest frequency peer: coaster (-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 « cochenilles »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- CMOS
CMOS
20,838 corpus weight
- coastal
coastal
20,837 corpus weight
- coaster
coaster
20,836 corpus weight
- cochenilles
cochenilles
20,835 corpus weight
- colada
colada
20,833 corpus weight
- colorimétri…
colorimétrique
20,832 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cochenilles » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cochenilles |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔʃ.nil\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #79,166 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cochenilles » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cochenilles is uncommon French at frequency #79,166 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɔʃ.nil\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de cochenille.".
cochenilles has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 cochenilles, spelled C-O-C-H-E-N-I-L-L-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de cochenille.
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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