cohen

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for cohen is 5 letters long, classified as anoun. Corpus data places it at rank #9,620 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Celui qui, dans le judaïsme, est considéré comme un descendant de la race sacerdotale d’Aaron.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for cohen, with forms such as "ccohen", "choen", and "coehn". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "con", "côte", "coin", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

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. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is cohen, spelled C-O-H-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.