coefficient
\ko.e.fi.sjɑ̃\
The verdict
“coefficient” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #12,534. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #12,534
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Efficient, qui produit un effet.
Corpus desk
Index FR-coefficient · coefficient · French
coefficient · rank #12,534 · 14 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #12,534
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH class
Nearest frequency peer: class (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « coefficient »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- China
China
87,470 corpus weight
- circulent
circulent
87,469 corpus weight
- class
class
87,468 corpus weight
- coefficient
coefficient
87,467 corpus weight
- compliments
compliments
87,465 corpus weight
- conformer
conformer
87,464 corpus weight
What this shows « coefficient » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | coefficient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ko.e.fi.sjɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #12,534 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « coefficient »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around coefficient (IPA \ko.e.fi.sjɑ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #12,534 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Efficient, qui produit un effet.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for coefficient, with forms such as "ccoefficient", "ceofficient", and "coeffciient". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "coefficients", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is coefficient, spelled C-O-E-F-F-I-C-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Efficient, qui produit un effet.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how coefficient appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il est, à certaines époques, des noms, des institutions, des pouvoirs à qui l’on prête tous les malheurs, à qui l’on dénie leurs talents, et qui servent de raison coefficiente aux sots.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccoefficient
- ceofficient
- coeffciient
- coefficcient
- coefficeint
- coefficiennt
- coefficientt
- coefficietn
- coefficinet
- coeffiicent
- coeficient
- coefifcient
- cofeficient
- ocefficient
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of coefficient - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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