cohabitant
\kɔ.a.bi.tɑ̃\
The verdict
“cohabitant” is uncommon French (frequency #97,794 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,794
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Chacune des personnes qui résident dans la même habitation, sous le même toit.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cohabitant · cohabitant · French
cohabitant · rank #97,794 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,794
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH collaborons
Nearest frequency peer: collaborons (+2 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 « cohabitant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- claver
claver
2,212 corpus weight
- cleaver
cleaver
2,211 corpus weight
- cohabitant
cohabitant
2,207 corpus weight
- collaborons
collaborons
2,205 corpus weight
- collected
collected
2,204 corpus weight
- colonelle
colonelle
2,203 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cohabitant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cohabitant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ.a.bi.tɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #97,794 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cohabitant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cohabitant is uncommon French at frequency #97,794 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɔ.a.bi.tɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Chacune des personnes qui résident dans la même habitation, sous le même toit.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for cohabitant in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is cohabitant, spelled C-O-H-A-B-I-T-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Chacune des personnes qui résident dans la même habitation, sous le même toit.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cohabitant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mais la difficulté était ailleurs : comment inviter ce cohabitant impossible ?
Selon l'INED, il y aurait 10 % de « non-cohabitants » en France. Les « non-cohabitants », quesako ? Comme leur nom l'indique, ce sont des couples qui ont choisi de ne pas vivre ensemble. Parce qu'on peut être très amoureux, fidèles et avoir deux appartements distincts.
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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