cocon
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#25,930
in French word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
cocon is aFrenchnoun. It means: Enveloppe que se filent beaucoup de larves d’insectes, et dans laquelle doit s’opérer leur dernière mue. Pronounced \kɔ.kɔ̃\. Often confused with con and cool.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cocon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ.kɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #25,930 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for cocon is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɔ.kɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #25,930 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for cocon, with forms such as "ccocon", "ccoon", and "coccon". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "con", "cool", "coin", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 cocon, spelled C-O-C-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Enveloppe que se filent beaucoup de larves d’insectes, et dans laquelle doit s’opérer leur dernière mue.
- 2Coque qui renferme le ver à soie quand il a achevé de filer et dont on obtient la soie en la dévidant.
- 3Tout ce qui protège un être fragile ou immature.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccocon,ccoon,coccon,cocno,coconn,coocn,occon
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for cocon
Misspelling Variants of "cocon"
Frequency rank: #25,930 in French
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