cocotte
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#20,392
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
14
similar word pairs
cocotte is aFrenchnoun. It means: Terme par lequel les enfants désignent les poules. Pronounced \kɔ.kɔt\. Often confused with cotte and crotte.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cocotte |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ.kɔt\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #20,392 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 14 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for cocotte is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɔ.kɔt\. Corpus data places it at rank #20,392 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 12 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for cocotte, with forms such as "ccocotte", "ccootte", and "coccotte". 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 14 confusable-pair relationships, "cotte", "crotte", "coyote", 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 cocotte, spelled C-O-C-O-T-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Terme par lequel les enfants désignent les poules.
- 2Carré de papier plié de manière à présenter une ressemblance éloignée avec une poule.
- 3Inflammation du bord de la paupière.
- 4Femme de mœurs légères.
- 5Nom affectueux ou plaisant donné à une femme de son entourage.
- 6Fièvre aphteuse.
- 7Pomme de pin. Le terme qui désigne une pomme de pin est écrit avec un t dans Bél. 1957, Canada 1930 et l'exemple cité sous cocotte ; on le rencontre écrit avec deux t dans Plais. 1969
- 8Cône de chantier ou de signalisation routière.
- 9Regroupement de joueurs debout et liés, comprenant au minimum le porteur du ballon, l’un de ses équipiers et un adversaire.
- 10Pièce qui relie le levier de frein au guidon.
- 11Chardon.
- 12Ustensile de cuisine à couvercle utilisé pour la cuisson prolongée des aliments.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccocotte,ccootte,coccotte,cocote,cocotet,coctote,cooctte,occotte
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for cocotte
Misspelling Variants of "cocotte"
Frequency rank: #20,392 in French
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