cochléaire
\kɔ.kle.ɛʁ\
The verdict
“cochléaire” is uncommon French (frequency #89,537 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,537
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui se rapporte à la cochlée, et par extension, à l’audition.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cochleaire · cochléaire · French
cochléaire · rank #89,537 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,537
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cochers
Nearest frequency peer: cochers (-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 « cochléaire »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- civilis
civilis
10,468 corpus weight
- Clipperton
Clipperton
10,466 corpus weight
- cochers
cochers
10,465 corpus weight
- cochléaire
cochléaire
10,464 corpus weight
- colombiers
colombiers
10,462 corpus weight
- colériques
colériques
10,461 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cochléaire » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cochléaire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kɔ.kle.ɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #89,537 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cochléaire » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cochléaire is uncommon French at frequency #89,537 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \kɔ.kle.ɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui se rapporte à la cochlée, et par extension, à l’audition.".
cochléaire has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 cochléaire, spelled C-O-C-H-L-É-A-I-R-E.
Definition
- 1Qui se rapporte à la cochlée, et par extension, à l’audition.
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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