coït
\kɔ.it\
The verdict
“coït” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #41,723. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #41,723
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Accouplement sexuel.
Corpus desk
Index FR-coit · coït · French
coït · rank #41,723 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #41,723
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cosy
Nearest frequency peer: cosy (-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 « coït »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Corot
Corot
58,280 corpus weight
- cosy
cosy
58,279 corpus weight
- coït
coït
58,278 corpus weight
- critiquées
critiquées
58,277 corpus weight
- crossing
crossing
58,276 corpus weight
- câblage
câblage
58,275 corpus weight
What this shows « coït » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | coït |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ.it\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #41,723 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « coït »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around coït (IPA \kɔ.it\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #41,723 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for coït, with forms such as "ccoït", "cotï", and "coïtt". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Ct", "con", "cou", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is coït, spelled C-O-Ï-T.
Definition
- 1Accouplement sexuel.
- 2Pratique sexuelle consistant à pénétrer le vagin ou l’anus avec le pénis.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how coït appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les nouvelles mariées disent que le coït peut faire crier de douleur. […] On comprend que nombre de femmes n’aiment pas particulièrement le coït, car si le mari ne s’occupe guère de faire jouir sa compagne, c’est la douleur qui demeure la plus vive.
Jean Borie, en accord avec Sartre aussi bien qu’avec Foucault, souligne qu’un retournement s’était, à ce propos, opéré depuis le XVIIIᵉ siècle; le désir et la jouissance, que l’on cesse d'exalter en les associant à la génération, se trouvent relégués au nouveau statut d’instinct génésique; dès lors, le coït conjugal se trouve plus étroitement associé à la…
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccoït
- cotï
- coïtt
- cïot
- ocït
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of coït - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).