cointreau
\kwɛ̃.tʁo\
The verdict
“cointreau” is uncommon French (frequency #78,279 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,279
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Liqueur élaborée à partir d'écorces d’oranges.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cointreau · cointreau · French
cointreau · rank #78,279 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,279
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH CNAV
Nearest frequency peer: CNAV (-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 « cointreau »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- clothing
clothing
21,725 corpus weight
- clouté
clouté
21,724 corpus weight
- CNAV
CNAV
21,723 corpus weight
- cointreau
cointreau
21,722 corpus weight
- commencerai…
commenceraient
21,720 corpus weight
- commende
commende
21,719 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cointreau » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cointreau |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kwɛ̃.tʁo\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #78,279 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cointreau » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cointreau is uncommon French at frequency #78,279 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kwɛ̃.tʁo\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Liqueur élaborée à partir d'écorces d’oranges.".
No misspelling variants are generated for cointreau in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is cointreau, spelled C-O-I-N-T-R-E-A-U.
Definition
- 1Liqueur élaborée à partir d'écorces d’oranges.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cointreau appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le cointreau est une liqueur emblématique des Pays de la Loire; elle fut mise au point à Angers.
Je bus, je me souviens, un fond de verre de cointreau puis j’indiquai que je voulais essayer tous les autres alcools : ce qui fut impossible, j’étais soûle bien avant.
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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