cooking
\ˈkʊk.ɪŋ\
The verdict
“cooking” is uncommon French (frequency #58,524 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,524
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Cuisine.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cooking · cooking · French
cooking · rank #58,524 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,524
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH contredisant
Nearest frequency peer: contredisant (-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 « cooking »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- consommaient
consommaient
41,480 corpus weight
- continuelles
continuelles
41,479 corpus weight
- contredisant
contredisant
41,478 corpus weight
- cooking
cooking
41,477 corpus weight
- coordonnatr…
coordonnatrice
41,476 corpus weight
- corr
corr
41,475 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cooking » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cooking |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈkʊk.ɪŋ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #58,524 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cooking » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cooking is uncommon French at frequency #58,524 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈkʊk.ɪŋ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Cuisine.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for cooking, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is cooking, spelled C-O-O-K-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1Cuisine.
Synonyms
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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).