cooptation
\kɔ.ɔp.ta.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“cooptation” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #49,002. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #49,002
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de coopter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cooptation · cooptation · French
cooptation · rank #49,002 · 14 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #49,002
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH coon
Nearest frequency peer: coon (-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 « cooptation »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- contractant…
contractantes
51,002 corpus weight
- contraignent
contraignent
51,001 corpus weight
- coon
coon
51,000 corpus weight
- cooptation
cooptation
50,999 corpus weight
- cosmopolites
cosmopolites
50,998 corpus weight
- coutumiers
coutumiers
50,997 corpus weight
What this shows « cooptation » 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 | cooptation |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ.ɔp.ta.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #49,002 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « cooptation »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around cooptation (IPA \kɔ.ɔp.ta.sjɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #49,002 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Action de coopter.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for cooptation, with forms such as "ccooptation", "coopattion", and "coopptation". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "cotation", "captation", "coopération", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is cooptation, spelled C-O-O-P-T-A-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Action de coopter.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how cooptation appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En 1912, la conférence bolchévik de Prague […], constituait un Comité Central et y appelait Staline, absent, admis par cooptation.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccooptation
- coopattion
- coopptation
- cooptaiton
- cooptatino
- cooptationn
- cooptatoin
- cooptattion
- coopttaion
- coopttation
- cootpation
- copotation
- coptation
- ocoptation
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cooptation - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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