cohen

noun

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The verdict

“cohen” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #9,620. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#9,620
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords
7
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celui qui, dans le judaïsme, est considéré comme un descendant de la race sacerdotale d’Aaron.

Corpus desk

Index FR-cohen · cohen · French

cohen · rank #9,620 · 7 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #9,620
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 7 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH clin

Nearest frequency peer: clin (-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 « cohen »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « cohen » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

cohen vs con
60% similar
cohen vs côte
40% similar
cohen vs coin
60% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for cohen
PropertyValue
Headwordcohen
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
Letters5
Frequency rank#9,620
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « cohen »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).cohense place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « clin » (#9,619), « commissaires » (#9,621), « clic » (#9,618). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « cohen » est au #9,620. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 7 spelling variants around cohen, anoun. Corpus frequency is #9,620 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Celui qui, dans le judaïsme, est considéré comme un descendant de la race sacerdotale d’Aaron.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for cohen, with forms such as "ccohen", "choen", and "coehn". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "con", "côte", "coin", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

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 cohen, spelled C-O-H-E-N.

Definition

  1. 1
    Celui qui, dans le judaïsme, est considéré comme un descendant de la race sacerdotale d’Aaron.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how cohen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. C'est ainsi que, contrairement à certains rabbins, qui avaient décidé que le cohen apostat, une fois revenu au judaïsme, ne devait plus être considéré comme digne de son titre et des honneurs y afférents, ils se prononça en faveur du maintien au cohen de tous ses privilèges.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ccohen
  • choen
  • coehn
  • cohenn
  • cohhen
  • cohne
  • ochen

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cohen - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

ccohen1choen2coehn2cohenn1cohhen1cohne2ochen2
Edit distance from "cohen"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "cohen"?
"cohen" is spelled C-O-H-E-N.
What does "cohen" mean?
As a noun, "cohen" means: Celui qui, dans le judaïsme, est considéré comme un descendant de la race sacerdotale d’Aaron.
What words are commonly confused with "cohen"?
"cohen" is commonly confused with "con", "côte", "coin". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "cohen" come from?
"cohen" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "cohen", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

bonté#9,612draps#9,642drive#9,643Aaron#9,586

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).

coupée7 variantscuisses7 variantsfusée7 variantsGabon7 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list