coquin
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#14,892
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
16
similar word pairs
coquin is aFrenchnoun. It means: Celui qui a un caractère vil, qui est capable de friponneries, de vols, d’actions déshonnêtes. Pronounced \kɔ.kɛ̃\. Often confused with Cousin and corbin.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | coquin |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ.kɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #14,892 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 16 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for coquin is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɔ.kɛ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #14,892 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for coquin, with forms such as "ccoquin", "coqiun", and "coqquin". 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 16 confusable-pair relationships, "Cousin", "corbin", "coquine", 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 coquin, spelled C-O-Q-U-I-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Celui qui a un caractère vil, qui est capable de friponneries, de vols, d’actions déshonnêtes.
- 2Celui qui est débauché, qui a beaucoup d’amants ou de maitresses.
- 3Amant habile au jeu de la séduction et de l’amour.
- 4Celui qui a de la chance.
- 5Personne espiègle avec un regard malin.
- 6Enfant vif et espiègle.
- 7Terme adressé par affection, à un enfant ou un animal.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccoquin,coqiun,coqquin,coquinn,coquni,couqin,cqouin,ocquin
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "coquin"
Frequency rank: #14,892 in French
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