cognitif
\kɔ.ɲi.tif\
The verdict
“cognitif” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #23,489. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #23,489
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Se dit des processus mentaux qui se rapportent à la connaissance.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cognitif · cognitif · French
cognitif · rank #23,489 · 12 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #23,489
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH commercialiser
Nearest frequency peer: commercialiser (+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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « cognitif »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- cliff
cliff
76,515 corpus weight
- Cluny
Cluny
76,514 corpus weight
- cognitif
cognitif
76,512 corpus weight
- commerciali…
commercialiser
76,511 corpus weight
- communautar…
communautarisme
76,510 corpus weight
- confesse
confesse
76,509 corpus weight
What this shows « cognitif » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cognitif |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kɔ.ɲi.tif\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #23,489 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « cognitif »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around cognitif (IPA \kɔ.ɲi.tif\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #23,489 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Se dit des processus mentaux qui se rapportent à la connaissance.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for cognitif, with forms such as "ccognitif", "cgonitif", and "coggnitif". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "cognitive", "cognitifs", "cognition", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is cognitif, spelled C-O-G-N-I-T-I-F.
Definition
- 1Se dit des processus mentaux qui se rapportent à la connaissance.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cognitif appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il s'ensuit diverses sensations physiques (p. ex., rougissements, tremblements, transpiration) et une contre-performance des fonctions cognitives (p. ex., problèmes de concentration, trous de mémoire).
Il est, bien sûr, difficile d’aborder ces questions et de proposer des réponses définitives. Non seulement parce qu’il est extrêmement ardu de porter un regard extérieur sur son monde mais aussi parce que les outils cognitifs que nous possédons, notre corps, nos sens, notre intelligence, ne sont pas faits pour analyser le monde, lui trouver une vérité, de…
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccognitif
- cgonitif
- coggnitif
- cogintif
- cogniitf
- cognitfi
- cognitiff
- cognittif
- cognnitif
- cogntiif
- congitif
- ocgnitif
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cognitif - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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