cosa
\ˈkɔza ~ˈkɔzə\
The verdict
“cosa” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #46,679. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #46,679
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variante du IXᵉ siècle de chose.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cosa · cosa · French
cosa · rank #46,679 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #46,679
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH corrélée
Nearest frequency peer: corrélée (-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 « cosa »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- convenances
convenances
53,325 corpus weight
- corrélée
corrélée
53,323 corpus weight
- cosa
cosa
53,322 corpus weight
- cotons
cotons
53,321 corpus weight
- courber
courber
53,320 corpus weight
- courroies
courroies
53,319 corpus weight
What this shows « cosa » 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 | cosa |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈkɔza ~ˈkɔzə\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #46,679 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « cosa »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around cosa (IPA \ˈkɔza ~ˈkɔzə\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #46,679 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Variante du IXᵉ siècle de chose.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for cosa, with forms such as "ccosa", "coas", and "cossa". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Cs", "cou", "CRS", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is cosa, spelled C-O-S-A.
Definition
- 1Variante du IXᵉ siècle de chose.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how cosa appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pro Deo amur et pro christian poblo et nostro commun salvament, dist di in avant, in quant Deus savir et podir me dunat, si salvaraeio cist meon fradre Karlo, et in adiudha et in cadhuna cosa, si cum om per dreit son fradra salvar dist, in o quid il mi altresi fazet; et ab Ludher nul plaid numquam prindrai, qui meon vol, cist meon fradre Karle in damno sit.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccosa
- coas
- cossa
- csoa
- ocsa
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cosa - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).