coquillage
\kɔ.ki.jaʒ\
The verdict
“coquillage” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #35,448. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #35,448
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tout mollusque marin dont le corps est enveloppé dans une coquille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-coquillage · coquillage · French
coquillage · rank #35,448 · 12 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #35,448
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH coppola
Nearest frequency peer: coppola (-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 « coquillage »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- convertisse…
convertisseur
64,556 corpus weight
- coordonnés
coordonnés
64,555 corpus weight
- coppola
coppola
64,554 corpus weight
- coquillage
coquillage
64,553 corpus weight
- cordages
cordages
64,552 corpus weight
- Cotillard
Cotillard
64,551 corpus weight
What this shows « coquillage » 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 | coquillage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ.ki.jaʒ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #35,448 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « coquillage »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around coquillage (IPA \kɔ.ki.jaʒ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #35,448 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for coquillage, with forms such as "ccoquillage", "coqiullage", and "coqquillage". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "coquille", "coquillages", 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 its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is coquillage, spelled C-O-Q-U-I-L-L-A-G-E.
Definition
- 1Tout mollusque marin dont le corps est enveloppé dans une coquille.
- 2La coquille du mollusque elle-même, voire la valve isolée d’une coquille de bivalve.
- 3Vulve, sexe des femmes.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how coquillage appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il mangeait les coquillages crus ; les coquillages sont, dans une certaine mesure, désaltérants.
L’industrie tire encore des fils pour tissus du fond des mers dont le plus remarquable est le tissu fabriqué à l’aide du « byssus » d’un coquillage appelé « Pinna » et qui se rencontre dans la Méditerranée.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccoquillage
- coqiullage
- coqquillage
- coquilage
- coquilalge
- coquillaeg
- coquillagge
- coquillgae
- coqulilage
- couqillage
- cqouillage
- ocquillage
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of coquillage - 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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