cogénération
\ko.ʒe.ne.ʁa.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“cogénération” is uncommon French (frequency #59,898 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,898
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Production simultanée d’électricité et de chaleur utile.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cogeneration · cogénération · French
cogénération · rank #59,898 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,898
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cogneur
Nearest frequency peer: cogneur (-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 « cogénération »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cocagne
cocagne
40,106 corpus weight
- cocus
cocus
40,105 corpus weight
- cogneur
cogneur
40,104 corpus weight
- cogénération
cogénération
40,103 corpus weight
- colour
colour
40,102 corpus weight
- colporter
colporter
40,101 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cogénération » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cogénération |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ko.ʒe.ne.ʁa.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #59,898 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cogénération » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cogénération is uncommon French at frequency #59,898 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ko.ʒe.ne.ʁa.sjɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Production simultanée d’électricité et de chaleur utile.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for cogénération, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is cogénération, spelled C-O-G-É-N-É-R-A-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Production simultanée d’électricité et de chaleur utile.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how cogénération appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Équipé de 4200 m² de panneaux photovoltaïques et d’une chaudière à cogénération alimentée à l’huile de colza, il n’est pas climatisé, un système de ventilation naturelle assurant le rafraîchissement nocturne des bureaux.
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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