cohabite
\kɔ.a.bit\
The verdict
“cohabite” is uncommon French (frequency #68,147 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,147
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe cohabiter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cohabite · cohabite · French
cohabite · rank #68,147 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,147
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH codétenu
Nearest frequency peer: codétenu (-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 « cohabite »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cloisonné
cloisonné
31,858 corpus weight
- codétenu
codétenu
31,855 corpus weight
- cohabite
cohabite
31,854 corpus weight
- colombine
colombine
31,853 corpus weight
- Comnène
Comnène
31,852 corpus weight
- complétez
complétez
31,851 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cohabite » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cohabite |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kɔ.a.bit\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #68,147 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cohabite » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cohabite is uncommon French at frequency #68,147 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \kɔ.a.bit\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
cohabite has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is cohabite, spelled C-O-H-A-B-I-T-E.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe cohabiter.
- 2Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe cohabiter.
- 3Première personne du singulier du subjonctif présent du verbe cohabiter.
- 4Troisième personne du singulier du subjonctif présent du verbe cohabiter.
- 5Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif du verbe cohabiter.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how cohabite appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il n’y a que quelques régions où l’ours polaire cohabite avec le bœuf musqué : sur la côte est du Groenland et dans quelques régions centrales de l’Arctique canadien.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).