coffin
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#66,596
in French word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
coffin is aFrenchnoun. It means: Récipient ayant un bout pointu, contenant de l’eau et dans lequel le faucheur transporte sa pierre à aiguiser. Le côté pointu permettait de planter l'objet dans le sol pour éviter que l'eau ne se r... Pronounced \kɔ.fɛ̃\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | coffin |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ.fɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #66,596 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for coffin is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɔ.fɛ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #66,596 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for coffin in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 coffin, spelled C-O-F-F-I-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Récipient ayant un bout pointu, contenant de l’eau et dans lequel le faucheur transporte sa pierre à aiguiser. Le côté pointu permettait de planter l'objet dans le sol pour éviter que l'eau ne se renverse. Il existait des modèles sans eau dit "sec". Ils sont généralement en bois, mais aussi en corne, parfois en métal.
- 2Haut panier circulaire avec un couvercle.
- 3Étui pour une charge de musquet.
- 4Cercueil
- 5Obstacle de cross composé de deux obstacles séparés par un fossé.
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #66,596 in French
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