coil
\kɔɪl\
The verdict
“coil” is uncommon French (frequency #76,441 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,441
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Bobine, enroulement.
Corpus desk
Index FR-coil · coil · French
coil · rank #76,441 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,441
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cognes
Nearest frequency peer: cognes (-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 « coil »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- codant
codant
23,563 corpus weight
- cognes
cognes
23,561 corpus weight
- coil
coil
23,560 corpus weight
- colomba
colomba
23,559 corpus weight
- colorent
colorent
23,558 corpus weight
- coléreux
coléreux
23,557 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « coil » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | coil |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔɪl\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #76,441 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « coil » en français
Rare enough to double-check
coil is uncommon French at frequency #76,441 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɔɪl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for coil, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is coil, spelled C-O-I-L.
Definition
- 1Bobine, enroulement.
- 2Bobine
- 3Bobine
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how coil appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
the sinuous coils of a snake.
The wild grapevines that twisted their coils or tendrils from tree to tree.
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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