coiffeur

\kwa.fœʁ\

/\kwa.fœʁ\/ noun

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The verdict

“coiffeur” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #11,370. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#11,370
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords
8
tracked misspellings
6
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Personne dont le métier est de couper et coiffer les cheveux, et éventuellement la barbe.

Corpus desk

Index FR-coiffeur · coiffeur · French

coiffeur · rank #11,370 · 8 variants · 6 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #11,370
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
  • VAR-MID 8 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH cloches

Nearest frequency peer: cloches (-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 « coiffeur »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « coiffeur » 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).

coiffeur vs coiffure
75% similar
coiffeur vs coiffeuse
78% similar
coiffeur vs coiffeurs
89% similar

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

Key facts for coiffeur
PropertyValue
Headwordcoiffeur
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\kwa.fœʁ\
Letters8
Frequency rank#11,370
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs6
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « coiffeur »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.coiffeurse 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 « cloches » (#11,369), « Colorado » (#11,371), « chroniqueur » (#11,368). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « coiffeur » est au #11,370. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 8 spelling variants around coiffeur (IPA \kwa.fœʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #11,370 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for coiffeur, with forms such as "ccoiffeur", "cioffeur", and "cofifeur". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "coiffure", "coiffeuse", "coiffeurs", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is coiffeur, spelled C-O-I-F-F-E-U-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    Personne dont le métier est de couper et coiffer les cheveux, et éventuellement la barbe.
  2. 2
    Salon de coiffure.
  3. 3
    Joueur qui est habituellement remplaçant.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Toilette du bataillon. Le barbier passe pour particulièrement francophile. Tout le monde va se raser chez lui. Chacun emporte son savon, son blaireau, son rasoir, et lui n’a guère qu’à regarder, mais enfin on se rase chez un coiffeur.
  2. Une très grande partie des ressources réunies par nos ménages du XXᵉ siècle passe en oripeaux inutiles, en colifichets, en fioles, en brimborions, en honoraires de coiffeurs, en cosmétiques.

Synonyms

coupe-tifsfigarofriseurkéffeurmerlan

This word in other languages

hairdresser(English)peluquero(Español)Friseur(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ccoiffeur
  • cioffeur
  • cofifeur
  • coifefur
  • coifeur
  • coifferu
  • coiffeurr
  • ociffeur

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of coiffeur - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

ccoiffeur1cioffeur2cofifeur2coifefur2coifeur1coifferu2coiffeurr1ociffeur2
Edit distance from "coiffeur"

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 "coiffeur"?
"coiffeur" is spelled C-O-I-F-F-E-U-R. The IPA pronunciation is \kwa.fœʁ\.
What does "coiffeur" mean?
As a noun, "coiffeur" means: Personne dont le métier est de couper et coiffer les cheveux, et éventuellement la barbe.
What words are commonly confused with "coiffeur"?
"coiffeur" is commonly confused with "coiffure", "coiffeuse", "coiffeurs". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "coiffeur"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "coiffeur" is \kwa.fœʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "coiffeur" come from?
"coiffeur" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Colorado#11,371concorde#11,375chantage#11,362converti#11,378

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).

chips8 variantscerise8 variantsbénin8 variantsBoeing8 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list