coffre
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#5,534
in French word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
17
similar word pairs
coffre is aFrenchnoun. It means: Meuble en forme de caisse, en bois ou en métal, propre à enfermer diverses choses. Pronounced \kɔfʁ\. It ranks #5,534 in French word frequency. Often confused with core and contre.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | coffre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔfʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #5,534 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 17 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for coffre is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɔfʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #5,534 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for coffre, with forms such as "ccoffre", "cfofre", and "coffer". 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 17 confusable-pair relationships, "core", "contre", "colère", 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 coffre, spelled C-O-F-F-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Meuble en forme de caisse, en bois ou en métal, propre à enfermer diverses choses.
- 2Trésor royal ou trésor public.
- 3Partie avant ou arrière d’une voiture où l’on range les bagages et autres objets.
- 4Table d’un autel, avec l’armoire qui est au-dessous.
- 5Poitrine, cage thoracique, souffle.
- 6Appétit.
- 7Coffre-fort.
- 8Synonyme de poisson-coffre (poisson).
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccoffre,cfofre,coffer,coffrre,cofre,cofrfe,ocffre
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for coffre
Misspelling Variants of "coffre"
Frequency rank: #5,534 in French
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