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cocotte

French, noun

cocotte is spelled C-O-C-O-T-T-E (7 letters) and appears 2.0 times per million words in written French, the 20,380th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Cocotte is a French feminine noun meaning “chicken, hen” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of cocotter. With an accent, cocotté is a different word: “past participle of cocotter”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Terme par lequel les enfants désignent les poules”.

What does cocotte mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    femininechicken, hen

  2. 2

    colloquialfemininehoney, darling

  3. 3

    femininesmall casserole (pot) for individual portions, similar to a Dutch oven

  4. 4

    femininepromiscuous woman, prostitute

  5. 5

    femininevagina

  6. 6

    Quebecfemininepinecone

  7. 7

    Quebecfeminine(construction) cone

verb

  1. 1

    first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive

  2. 2

    second-person singular imperative

verb

as cocotté
  1. 1

    past participle of cocotter

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Terme par lequel les enfants désignent les poules. 2. Carré de papier plié de manière à présenter une ressemblance éloignée avec une poule. 3. Inflammation du bord de la paupière. 4. Femme de mœurs légères.

noun: 1. Sorte de récipient de cuisine, doté d’un couvercle, pour mettre les mets à mijoter. 2. Appareil de cuisson électrique en forme de récipient couvert, pour faire mijoter les mets lentement sans source de chauffage externe.

The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.

Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of cocotte

  • cocottes plural
  • cocottée feminine
  • cocottés masculine plural
  • cocottées feminine plural
  • coco masculine
  • cocote
  • coquotte

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

English words that translate to cocotte

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is cocotte in French?

cocotte appears 2.0 times per million words in written French.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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