cocooning
\kɔ.ku.niŋ\
The verdict
“cocooning” is uncommon French (frequency #73,022 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,022
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Attitude consistant à se trouver si bien chez soi qu’on n’est guère poussé à en sortir excepté pour les nécessités vitales.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cocooning · cocooning · French
cocooning · rank #73,022 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,022
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cobras
Nearest frequency peer: cobras (-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 « cocooning »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- clôturera
clôturera
26,982 corpus weight
- CNCDH
CNCDH
26,981 corpus weight
- cobras
cobras
26,980 corpus weight
- cocooning
cocooning
26,979 corpus weight
- coding
coding
26,978 corpus weight
- colite
colite
26,977 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cocooning » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cocooning |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ.ku.niŋ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #73,022 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cocooning » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cocooning is uncommon French at frequency #73,022 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɔ.ku.niŋ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Attitude consistant à se trouver si bien chez soi qu’on n’est guère poussé à en sortir excepté pour les nécessités vitales.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for cocooning in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is cocooning, spelled C-O-C-O-O-N-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1Attitude consistant à se trouver si bien chez soi qu’on n’est guère poussé à en sortir excepté pour les nécessités vitales.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cocooning appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Si, pour certains analystes, la société se rétracte, ce n'est pas sur des valeurs individuelles (le cocooning) mais groupales, communautaires. Le social « s'éclate » dans le présent, sans que ce mouvement ne s'oriente dans une direction ou dans un but précis.
Certains, à cet égard, ont déjà parlé de cocooning, d’une nouvelle attitude qui privilégie les pratiques culturelles à domicile plutôt que celles exigeant de sortir.
Synonyms
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).