coignet
\kwa.ɲɛ\
The verdict
“coignet” is uncommon French (frequency #94,629 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #94,629
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Petit coin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-coignet · coignet · French
coignet · rank #94,629 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #94,629
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cockney
Nearest frequency peer: cockney (-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 « coignet »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- coats
coats
5,375 corpus weight
- Cochabamba
Cochabamba
5,374 corpus weight
- cockney
cockney
5,373 corpus weight
- coignet
coignet
5,372 corpus weight
- collégiaux
collégiaux
5,371 corpus weight
- comparera
comparera
5,370 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « coignet » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | coignet |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kwa.ɲɛ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #94,629 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « coignet » en français
Rare enough to double-check
coignet is uncommon French at frequency #94,629 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kwa.ɲɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Petit coin.".
coignet doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is coignet, spelled C-O-I-G-N-E-T.
Definition
- 1Petit coin.
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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