coque
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#7,042
in French word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
coque is aFrenchnoun. It means: Enveloppe extérieure de l’œuf. Pronounced \kɔk\. It ranks #7,042 in French word frequency. Often confused with cou and coup.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | coque |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔk\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #7,042 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for coque is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɔk\. Corpus data places it at rank #7,042 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 14 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for coque, with forms such as "ccoque", "coqeu", and "coqque". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "cou", "coup", "cour", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is coque, spelled C-O-Q-U-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Enveloppe extérieure de l’œuf.
- 2Symbole de la naissance.
- 3Cocon où se renferment le ver à soie et autres chrysalides d’insectes qui filent.
- 4Nom donné à diverses espèces de coquillages (en particulier, en France, la coque commune, ou coque comestible).
- 5Enveloppe protectrice.
- 6Enveloppe des bordages, corps du bateau, abstraction faite du gréement et de la mâture.
- 7Petites pièces de fer qui servent à conduire le pêne d’une serrure. Crampon sur la platine d’un verrou à ressort ou d’un loqueteau.
- 8Enveloppe ligneuse de certains fruits.
- 9Œufs de poisson de mer que l’on emploie pour amorcer les filets avec lesquels on pêche les sardines.
- 10Coque du Levant, drupe dont la déhiscence a lieu avec élasticité, à cause d’un ressort membraneux situé à sa base.
- 11Faux pli qui se fait à une corde trop forte et qu’on n'a pas pris soin de détordre.
- 12Arrangement de rubans ou de cheveux disposés en forme de coque.
- 13Emballage thermoformé assurant la présentation et la protection d’un produit.
- 14Protection souvent décorative, d’un téléphone portable, que l’on peut remplacer.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccoque,coqeu,coqque,couqe,cqoue,ocque
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for coque
Misspelling Variants of "coque"
Frequency rank: #7,042 in French
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