coing

\kwɛ̃\

/\kwɛ̃\/ noun

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The verdict

“coing” is uncommon French (frequency #55,155 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#55,155
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fruit piriforme du cognassier, de couleur jaune, au goût âpre et souvent utilisé pour faire des gelées.

Corpus desk

Index FR-coing · coing · French

coing · rank #55,155 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #55,155
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH collaboratric…

Nearest frequency peer: collaboratrices (+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 « coing »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « coing » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for coing
PropertyValue
Headwordcoing
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\kwɛ̃\
Letters5
Frequency rank#55,155
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « coing » en français

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).coingtombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « collaboratrices » (#55,156), « coalisés » (#55,153), « collectée » (#55,157). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « coing » est au #55,155. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

coing is uncommon French at frequency #55,155 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kwɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Fruit piriforme du cognassier, de couleur jaune, au goût âpre et souvent utilisé pour faire des gelées.".

No misspelling variants are generated for coing in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.

Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is coing, spelled C-O-I-N-G.

Definition

  1. 1
    Fruit piriforme du cognassier, de couleur jaune, au goût âpre et souvent utilisé pour faire des gelées.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Jaune comme un coing.
  2. Il sentit dès les paliers inférieurs une entêtante odeur de fruit et trouva dans l’atelier Élodie, qui aidait la citoyenne Gamelin à faire de la confiture de coings.

This word in other languages

quince(English)membrillo(Español)Quitte(Deutsch)marmelo(Português)

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 "coing"?
"coing" is spelled C-O-I-N-G. The IPA pronunciation is \kwɛ̃\.
What does "coing" mean?
As a noun, "coing" means: Fruit piriforme du cognassier, de couleur jaune, au goût âpre et souvent utilisé pour faire des gelées.
How do you pronounce "coing"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "coing" is \kwɛ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "coing" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

CNOSF#55,152cairn#55,116cabas#55,112dinos#55,199

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list