coquinerie
\kɔ.kin.ʁi\
The verdict
“coquinerie” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de coquin, de fripon.
Corpus desk
Index FR-coquinerie · coquinerie · French
coquinerie · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "C" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | coquinerie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ.kin.ʁi\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « coquinerie » en français
Rare enough to double-check
coquinerie is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɔ.kin.ʁi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for coquinerie, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is coquinerie, spelled C-O-Q-U-I-N-E-R-I-E.
Definition
- 1Action de coquin, de fripon.
- 2Caractère du coquin, du fripon.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how coquinerie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il m’a fait une coquinerie de premier ordre.
Lorsque, à quinze ans, il commença à lire les journaux, la mystification qui finit par la mort du colonel Caron était la dernière grande action du gouvernement d’alors ; elle servait de texte à tous les journaux de l’opposition. Cette coquinerie célèbre était, de plus, fort intelligible pour un enfant, et il en possédait tous les détails, comme s’il se fû…
Synonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.