cocoon
\kəˈkuːn\
The verdict
“cocoon” is uncommon French (frequency #68,927 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,927
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Coconner.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cocoon · cocoon · French
cocoon · rank #68,927 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,927
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH colmatage
Nearest frequency peer: colmatage (+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 « cocoon »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Clamecy
Clamecy
31,078 corpus weight
- clot
clot
31,076 corpus weight
- cocoon
cocoon
31,074 corpus weight
- colmatage
colmatage
31,073 corpus weight
- coléoptère
coléoptère
31,072 corpus weight
- commencerez
commencerez
31,071 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cocoon » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cocoon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kəˈkuːn\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #68,927 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cocoon » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cocoon is uncommon French at frequency #68,927 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \kəˈkuːn\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Coconner.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for cocoon, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is cocoon, spelled C-O-C-O-O-N.
Definition
- 1Coconner.
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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