coquette
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#26,679
in French word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
10
similar word pairs
coquette is aFrenchnoun. It means: Femme qui use de coquetterie. Pronounced \kɔ.kɛt\. Often confused with couette and Cosette.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | coquette |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ.kɛt\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #26,679 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for coquette is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɔ.kɛt\. Corpus data places it at rank #26,679 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 10 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for coquette, with forms such as "ccoquette", "coqeutte", and "coqquette". 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 10 confusable-pair relationships, "couette", "Cosette", "corvette", 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 coquette, spelled C-O-Q-U-E-T-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Femme qui use de coquetterie.
- 2Boîte à herborisation.
- 3Variété de laitue.
- 4Cultivar de pommier, et pommes de celui-ci.
- 5Nom vernaculaire de plusieurs espèces de poissons marins.
- 6Synonyme de zeuzère du poirier (papillon).
- 7Nom vernaculaire regroupant seize espèces de deux genres (Lophornis et Discosura) de très petits oiseaux nectarivores de la sous-famille des trochilinés (colibris véritables, etc.). Ces espèces sont caractérisées par leur taille souvent minuscule, et surtout par leurs plumes ornementales souvent spectaculaires telles huppes érectiles touffues, aigrettes, hackles, raquettes, filoplumes caudales très longues, etc. Les coquettes sont souvent grégaires, et propres aux forêts tropicales de l'écozone néotropicale.
- 8Mouche coquette, grain de beauté factice placé auprès des lèvres.
- 9Pénis.
- 10Testicule
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccoquette,coqeutte,coqquette,coquete,coquetet,coqutete,couqette,cqouette,ocquette
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Relative frequency of common misspelling types for coquette
Misspelling Variants of "coquette"
Frequency rank: #26,679 in French
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