coe
The verdict
“coe” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #34,469) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #34,469
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Queue.
Corpus desk
Index FR-coe · coe · French
coe · rank #34,469 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #34,469
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH clonage
Nearest frequency peer: clonage (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « coe »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- circulait
circulait
65,535 corpus weight
- cities
cities
65,534 corpus weight
- clonage
clonage
65,533 corpus weight
- coe
coe
65,532 corpus weight
- colérique
colérique
65,531 corpus weight
- command
command
65,530 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « coe » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | coe |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #34,469 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « coe »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for coe is neighbouring look-alikes ("CV", "Ct", …), not just typos; it is anoun. Frequency #34,469 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Gloss: "Queue.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for coe in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "CV", "Ct", "CP", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored 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 coe, spelled C-O-E.
Definition
- 1Queue.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how coe appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Vers la qeue descent l’espée, Tot rés à rés li a coupée
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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