coffrer
\kɔ.fʁe\
The verdict
“coffrer” is uncommon French (frequency #66,597 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,597
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Emprisonner.
Corpus desk
Index FR-coffrer · coffrer · French
coffrer · rank #66,597 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,597
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH coffin
Nearest frequency peer: coffin (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « coffrer »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Cléry
Cléry
33,407 corpus weight
- cochère
cochère
33,406 corpus weight
- coffin
coffin
33,405 corpus weight
- coffrer
coffrer
33,404 corpus weight
- coiffant
coiffant
33,403 corpus weight
- collégialité
collégialité
33,401 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « coffrer » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | coffrer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kɔ.fʁe\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #66,597 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « coffrer » en français
Rare enough to double-check
coffrer is uncommon French at frequency #66,597 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \kɔ.fʁe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for coffrer in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is coffrer, spelled C-O-F-F-R-E-R.
Definition
- 1Emprisonner.
- 2Arrêter, interpeller.
- 3Recouvrir, bloquer.
- 4Réaliser un coffrage pour couler par exemple du béton.
- 5Épargner, emmagasiner de l'argent.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how coffrer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mon fils, à eux deux, ils ont fait la somme, et je suis allé payer pour toi le Bédouin qui a commis un crime de lèse-génie en te coffrant.
On les a arrêtés tous les trois pour avoir volé du bois dans un chantier et on les a coffrés.
This word in other languages
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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