coiffe

\kwaf\

/\kwaf\/ noun

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The verdict

“coiffe” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #18,964. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#18,964
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords
6
tracked misspellings
12
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Couvre-chef destiné à couvrir la tête des femmes.

Corpus desk

Index FR-coiffe · coiffe · French

coiffe · rank #18,964 · 6 variants · 12 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #18,964
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
  • VAR-MID 6 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH composite

Nearest frequency peer: composite (+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 « coiffe »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « coiffe » 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).

coiffe vs confie
67% similar
coiffe vs coince
67% similar
coiffe vs coiffer
86% similar

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

Key facts for coiffe
PropertyValue
Headwordcoiffe
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\kwaf\
Letters6
Frequency rank#18,964
Misspellings tracked6
Confusable pairs12
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « coiffe »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).coiffese 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 « composite » (#18,965), « cofondateur » (#18,962), « clivage » (#18,961). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « coiffe » est au #18,964. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 6 spelling variants around coiffe (IPA \kwaf\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #18,964 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 9 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for coiffe, with forms such as "ccoiffe", "cioffe", and "cofife". 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 12 confusable-pair relationships, "confie", "coince", "coiffer", 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 any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is coiffe, spelled C-O-I-F-F-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Couvre-chef destiné à couvrir la tête des femmes.
  2. 2
    Bonnet, garniture intérieure d'un casque, d'un chapeau, etc.
  3. 3
    Membrane que quelques enfants ont sur la tête en venant au monde.
  4. 4
    Enveloppe membraneuse qui recouvre l’urne des mousses, calyptre.
  5. 5
    Toute enveloppe qu’on applique à l’extrémité d’un objet.
  6. 6
    Courte séquence nucléotidique ajoutée, par modification post-transcriptionnelle, à l’extrémité 5' de l’ARN messager chez les eucaryotes.
  7. 7
    Rebord incurvé qui surmonte le dos d'un volume, en tête et queue. On la façonne à partir du rempli de peau.
  8. 8
    Extrémité antérieure, à profil aérodynamique, d’un lanceur ou d’une fusée-sonde destinée à assurer la protection de la charge utile, au début de la séquence de vol.
  9. 9
    Tête, cerveau.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Puis il s’engagea dans une route bordée de haies vives, le long desquelles passaient des femmes de Dinard, droites sous leur large coiffe de batiste aux ailes flottantes. — Malheureusement, dit madame Raymond, assise sur le siège à côté de Montessuy, les vieux costumes se perdent. C’est la faute des chemins de fer.
  2. Elle avait revêtu le costume des filles de son pays. Sa tête brune apparaissait, doucement auréolée par la coiffe de dentelle tuyautée, dont la blancheur neigeuse rayonnait autour de ses traits.

This word in other languages

headdress(English)Kappe(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ccoiffe
  • cioffe
  • cofife
  • coife
  • coifef
  • ociffe

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of coiffe - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

ccoiffe1cioffe2cofife2coife1coifef2ociffe2
Edit distance from "coiffe"

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 "coiffe"?
"coiffe" is spelled C-O-I-F-F-E. The IPA pronunciation is \kwaf\.
What does "coiffe" mean?
As a noun, "coiffe" means: Couvre-chef destiné à couvrir la tête des femmes.
What words are commonly confused with "coiffe"?
"coiffe" is commonly confused with "confie", "coince", "coiffer". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "coiffe"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "coiffe" is \kwaf\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "coiffe" come from?
"coiffe" 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 "coiffe", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

coulée#18,972bunker#18,949Bresse#18,948Beaune#18,944

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).

chum6 variantsBenz6 variantsAnaïs6 variantsfolio6 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list