cogito
\kɔ.ʒi.to\
The verdict
“cogito” is uncommon French (frequency #82,802 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,802
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Théorie qui propose que l’être humain doit exister puisqu’il est capable de se poser la question même.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cogito · cogito · French
cogito · rank #82,802 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,802
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH codétenus
Nearest frequency peer: codétenus (-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 « cogito »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Clélia
Clélia
17,202 corpus weight
- codétenus
codétenus
17,200 corpus weight
- cogito
cogito
17,199 corpus weight
- cohéritiers
cohéritiers
17,198 corpus weight
- collerait
collerait
17,197 corpus weight
- column
column
17,196 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cogito » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cogito |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ.ʒi.to\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #82,802 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cogito » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cogito is uncommon French at frequency #82,802 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɔ.ʒi.to\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Théorie qui propose que l’être humain doit exister puisqu’il est capable de se poser la question même.".
No misspelling variants are generated for cogito in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is cogito, spelled C-O-G-I-T-O.
Definition
- 1Théorie qui propose que l’être humain doit exister puisqu’il est capable de se poser la question même.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how cogito appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
À l’instar du cogito gourmand qui intègre, dans son conatus, les autres hommes et les autres vivants, le cogito engendré ressent le trouble de plusieurs lignées derrière la sienne.
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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