coiffe des rotateurs

\kwaf dɛ ʁɔ.ta.tœʁ\

/\kwaf dɛ ʁɔ.ta.tœʁ\/ noun

The verdict

“coiffe des rotateurs” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.

Unranked
below top-frequency French
20
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According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Ensemble de tendons de muscles situé au niveau de l’articulation de l’épaule, qui jouent un rôle important dans la stabilisation de cette articulation.

Key facts for coiffe des rotateurs
PropertyValue
Headwordcoiffe des rotateurs
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\kwaf dɛ ʁɔ.ta.tœʁ\
Letters20
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “coiffe des rotateurs” sits in French frequency

coiffe des rotateurs falls outside the top-100,000 ranked French words, the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for coiffe des rotateurs is 20 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kwaf dɛ ʁɔ.ta.tœʁ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Ensemble de tendons de muscles situé au niveau de l’articulation de l’épaule, qui jouent un rôle important dans la stabilisation de cette articulation.".

No misspelling variants are generated for coiffe des rotateurs in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

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 coiffe des rotateurs, spelled C-O-I-F-F-E- -D-E-S- -R-O-T-A-T-E-U-R-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Ensemble de tendons de muscles situé au niveau de l’articulation de l’épaule, qui jouent un rôle important dans la stabilisation de cette articulation.

This word in other languages

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "coiffe des rotateurs"?
"coiffe des rotateurs" is spelled C-O-I-F-F-E- -D-E-S- -R-O-T-A-T-E-U-R-S. The IPA pronunciation is \kwaf dɛ ʁɔ.ta.tœʁ\.
What does "coiffe des rotateurs" mean?
As a noun, "coiffe des rotateurs" means: Ensemble de tendons de muscles situé au niveau de l’articulation de l’épaule, qui jouent un rôle important dans la stabilisation de cette articulation.
How do you pronounce "coiffe des rotateurs"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "coiffe des rotateurs" is \kwaf dɛ ʁɔ.ta.tœʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Using “coiffe des rotateurs”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct French spelling is C-O-I-F-F-E- -D-E-S- -R-O-T-A-T-E-U-R-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Say it as \kwaf dɛ ʁɔ.ta.tœʁ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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