coiffer
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#24,908
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
9
similar word pairs
coiffer is aFrenchverb. It means: Couvrir la tête de quelqu’un, y mettre quelque chose. Pronounced \kwa.fe\. Often confused with confier and coincer.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | coiffer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kwa.fe\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #24,908 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for coiffer is 7 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kwa.fe\. Corpus data places it at rank #24,908 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 14 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for coiffer, with forms such as "ccoiffer", "cioffer", and "cofifer". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 9 confusable-pair relationships, "confier", "coincer", "coiffure", 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 coiffer, spelled C-O-I-F-F-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Couvrir la tête de quelqu’un, y mettre quelque chose.
- 2Être sur la tête de quelqu’un.
- 3Recouvrir un sommet ou une extrémité.
- 4Recouvrir un sommet ou une extrémité.
- 5Recouvrir un sommet ou une extrémité.
- 6Mettre des cornes, cocufier.
- 7S’engouer, s’entêter de quelqu’un ou de quelque chose.
- 8Fournir des coiffures.
- 9Arranger les cheveux de telle ou telle façon, peigner.
- 10Seoir, en parlant des ornements de tête.
- 11Prendre un gibier par les oreilles, en parlant des chiens.
- 12Se faire frapper par le vent sur l’avant des voiles, lors d'une manœuvre ou d'un changement de vent subit, en parlant d'un navire.
- 13Être à la tête, diriger, commander.
- 14Être en tête. Battre un adversaire d'une courte tête au dernier moment.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccoiffer,cioffer,cofifer,coifefr,coifer,coifferr,coiffre,ociffer
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for coiffer
Misspelling Variants of "coiffer"
Frequency rank: #24,908 in French
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