cogiter
\kɔ.ʒi.te\
The verdict
“cogiter” is uncommon French (frequency #53,860 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,860
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Réfléchir ; penser.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cogiter · cogiter · French
cogiter · rank #53,860 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,860
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cloque
Nearest frequency peer: cloque (-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 « cogiter »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- clament
clament
46,144 corpus weight
- clinical
clinical
46,143 corpus weight
- cloque
cloque
46,142 corpus weight
- cogiter
cogiter
46,141 corpus weight
- colique
colique
46,140 corpus weight
- communiquera
communiquera
46,139 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cogiter » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cogiter |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kɔ.ʒi.te\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #53,860 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cogiter » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cogiter is uncommon French at frequency #53,860 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \kɔ.ʒi.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Réfléchir ; penser.".
No misspelling variants are generated for cogiter in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, 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 cogiter, spelled C-O-G-I-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1Réfléchir ; penser.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cogiter appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les rouges étaient aux cent coups. Ils s'étaient réunis en comité restreint dans la cuisine du cafetier. Autour de la toile cirée, le bureau de la Libre-Pensée cogitait ferme.
Il a grandi dans la campagne alsacienne, entouré de bêtes. "Mon père avait ce rêve de gosse d'avoir des chevaux. Un jour, on a récupéré deux poneys. Ça m'a fait cogiter : si on ne mange pas de poneys parce qu'on en a, qu'est-ce qu'on ferait si on avait un cochon ?"
Synonyms
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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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