coquille
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#11,553
in French word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
5
similar word pairs
coquille is aFrenchnoun. It means: Enveloppe protectrice, dure et calcaire des œufs et de la plupart des mollusques. Pronounced \kɔ.kij\. Often confused with coquine and couille.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | coquille |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ.kij\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #11,553 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for coquille is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɔ.kij\. Corpus data places it at rank #11,553 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 19 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for coquille, with forms such as "ccoquille", "coqiulle", and "coqquille". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "coquine", "couille", "couilles", 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 coquille, spelled C-O-Q-U-I-L-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Enveloppe protectrice, dure et calcaire des œufs et de la plupart des mollusques.
- 2Enveloppe protectrice de l’homme, protégeant la personnalité.
- 3Fossile d’une coquille de mollusque.
- 4Coque de noix, d’amandes, etc.
- 5Enfance.
- 6Ensemble de plumes dressées en forme de coquille chez des pigeons.
- 7Objet en forme de coquille ou de conque marine.
- 8Sorte de papier collé, dont la marque est une coquille.
- 9Erreur de typographie ; bourdon ; mastic.
- 10Élément concave d’une épée séparant la lame du manche.
- 11Accessoire servant à protéger des coups l’organe génital masculin.
- 12Portion indivisible du cylindre d’impression des timbres-poste par rotative.
- 13Fourneau vertical qui sert à rôtir la viande.
- 14Marmite en fonte.
- 15Nom donné, par analogie de forme, à une brioche recouverte de grains de sucre, censée représenter l'enfant Jésus emmailloté et que l'on mange à Noël.
- 16Moule autour duquel passe de l’eau pour refroidir le métal en fusion après une coulée.
- 17Outil qu’utilisent les lapidaires pour maintenir les pierres pendant la taille.
- 18Meuble représentant une coquille Saint-Jacques dans les armoiries. Elle est généralement vue de dessus et le pied tourné vers le chef. À rapprocher de conque, coquille Saint-Jacques, huître et vannet.
- 19Ornement en forme de coquillage sur une tombe destiné à recevoir de l’eau bénite ou du lait.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccoquille,coqiulle,coqquille,coquile,coquilel,coqulile,couqille,cqouille,ocquille
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for coquille
Misspelling Variants of "coquille"
Frequency rank: #11,553 in French
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