coiffent
\kwaf\
The verdict
“coiffent” is uncommon French (frequency #87,473 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,473
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent du verbe coiffer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-coiffent · coiffent · French
coiffent · rank #87,473 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,473
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH closerie
Nearest frequency peer: closerie (-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 « coiffent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- claymore
claymore
12,531 corpus weight
- clientélist…
clientélistes
12,530 corpus weight
- closerie
closerie
12,529 corpus weight
- coiffent
coiffent
12,528 corpus weight
- colistiers
colistiers
12,526 corpus weight
- collar
collar
12,525 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « coiffent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | coiffent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kwaf\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #87,473 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « coiffent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
coiffent is uncommon French at frequency #87,473 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \kwaf\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for coiffent in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is coiffent, spelled C-O-I-F-F-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent du verbe coiffer.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du subjonctif présent du verbe coiffer.
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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