cosmetics
\kus.me.ˈtit͡s\
The verdict
“cosmetics” is uncommon French (frequency #78,300 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,300
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de cosmetic.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cosmetics · cosmetics · French
cosmetics · rank #78,300 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,300
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH corrupteur
Nearest frequency peer: corrupteur (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « cosmetics »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- contrevienn…
contreviennent
21,704 corpus weight
- cornées
cornées
21,703 corpus weight
- corrupteur
corrupteur
21,702 corpus weight
- cosmetics
cosmetics
21,701 corpus weight
- couard
couard
21,699 corpus weight
- coureuses
coureuses
21,698 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cosmetics » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cosmetics |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kus.me.ˈtit͡s\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #78,300 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cosmetics » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cosmetics is uncommon French at frequency #78,300 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \kus.me.ˈtit͡s\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Masculin pluriel de cosmetic.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for cosmetics, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is cosmetics, spelled C-O-S-M-E-T-I-C-S.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de cosmetic.
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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