cochère
\kɔ.ʃɛʁ\
The verdict
“cochère” is uncommon French (frequency #66,595 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,595
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celle qui dirige l’attelage d’une voiture de maître ou d’une voiture publique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cochere · cochère · French
cochère · rank #66,595 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,595
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Cléry
Nearest frequency peer: Cléry (-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 « cochère »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- clientéliste
clientéliste
33,408 corpus weight
- Cléry
Cléry
33,407 corpus weight
- cochère
cochère
33,406 corpus weight
- coffin
coffin
33,405 corpus weight
- coffrer
coffrer
33,404 corpus weight
- coiffant
coiffant
33,403 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cochère » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cochère |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ.ʃɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #66,595 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cochère » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cochère is uncommon French at frequency #66,595 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɔ.ʃɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Celle qui dirige l’attelage d’une voiture de maître ou d’une voiture publique.".
cochère has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is cochère, spelled C-O-C-H-È-R-E.
Definition
- 1Celle qui dirige l’attelage d’une voiture de maître ou d’une voiture publique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cochère appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Rassurez-vous, lecteur, et vous de même, chère lectrice, ce cocher était une cochère.
C’est, depuis un demi-siècle, en effet, une ascension continue : l’avocate, la doctoresse, la cochère, qui indignèrent nos pères ou nous firent sourire, passent inaperçues aujourd’hui.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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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