cochonnet

/\kɔ.ʃɔ.nɛ\/ noun

Letters

9 characters

Frequency Rank

#98,894

in French word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

cochonnet is aFrenchnoun. It means: Boule de petit diamètre et en matériau léger (bois, plastique ou PVC) servant de but visé dans différents jeux de boules, tels que la pétanque. Pronounced \kɔ.ʃɔ.nɛ\.

Key facts for cochonnet
PropertyValue
Headwordcochonnet
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\kɔ.ʃɔ.nɛ\
Letters9
Frequency rank#98,894
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of cochonnet in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for cochonnet is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɔ.ʃɔ.nɛ\. Corpus data places it at rank #98,894 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for cochonnet in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 cochonnet, spelled C-O-C-H-O-N-N-E-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Boule de petit diamètre et en matériau léger (bois, plastique ou PVC) servant de but visé dans différents jeux de boules, tels que la pétanque.
  2. 2
    Jeu pratiqué sur un billard qui imite les règles du jeu de boules.
  3. 3
    Jeu de boules utilisant comme but un cochonnet, par opposition au jeu de grosses boules où le but était fixe (piquet) et suivi par un noyon.
  4. 4
    Sorte de dé à douze faces, marquées chacune de points ou d’un chiffre, depuis un jusqu’à douze.
  5. 5
    Petit cochon châtré, ou cochon de lait.
  6. 6
    Partie visible d’un bâti de porte ou d’un dormant de croisée, dégageant ceux-ci des tableaux de maçonnerie.
  7. 7
    Nom vernaculaire du pissenlit
  8. 8
    Nom vernaculaire du fruit de l’églantier
  9. 9
    (Montreuil) Nom donné à certains rameaux lors de la taille des pêchers en espaliers

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This word in other languages

Frequency rank: #98,894 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "cochonnet"?
"cochonnet" is spelled C-O-C-H-O-N-N-E-T. The IPA pronunciation is \kɔ.ʃɔ.nɛ\.
What does "cochonnet" mean?
As a noun, "cochonnet" means: Boule de petit diamètre et en matériau léger (bois, plastique ou PVC) servant de but visé dans différents jeux de boules, tels que la pétanque.
How do you pronounce "cochonnet"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "cochonnet" is \kɔ.ʃɔ.nɛ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "cochonnet" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.