cosmonaute

\kɔs.mɔ.not\

/\kɔs.mɔ.not\/ noun

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The verdict

“cosmonaute” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #45,527. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#45,527
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords
14
tracked misspellings
1
confusable pair

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Membre de l’équipage d'une fusée ou d’un engin spatial soviétique ou russe.

Corpus desk

Index FR-cosmonaute · cosmonaute · French

cosmonaute · rank #45,527 · 14 variants · 1 confusable

  • FREQ-MID #45,527
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 14 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH couleuvre

Nearest frequency peer: couleuvre (+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 « cosmonaute »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « cosmonaute » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

cosmonaute vs communauté
70% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for cosmonaute
PropertyValue
Headwordcosmonaute
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\kɔs.mɔ.not\
Letters10
Frequency rank#45,527
Misspellings tracked14
Confusable pairs1
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « cosmonaute »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).cosmonautese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « couleuvre » (#45,528), « contraignants » (#45,525), « context » (#45,524). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « cosmonaute » est au #45,527. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 14 spelling variants around cosmonaute (IPA \kɔs.mɔ.not\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #45,527 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for cosmonaute, with forms such as "ccosmonaute", "comsonaute", and "cosmmonaute". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "communauté", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is cosmonaute, spelled C-O-S-M-O-N-A-U-T-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Membre de l’équipage d'une fusée ou d’un engin spatial soviétique ou russe.
  2. 2
    Spationaute.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how cosmonaute appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Ceci prit une forme particulièrement concrète, le 12 avril 1961, avec le vol de Iouri Gagarine au cours duquel le peuple russe put entendre le premier cosmonaute chanter dans sa nacelle une mélodie écrite par Chostakovitch sur une poésie de Dolmatovsky, La patrie écoute.
  2. Jinn connaissait bien d’autres tours, considérés comme le comble de l’art par les cosmonautes à voile.

Synonyms

femmeaméricaineuropéenchinoisindiengalaxionaute

This word in other languages

cosmonaut(English)cosmonauta(Español)Kosmonaut(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ccosmonaute
  • comsonaute
  • cosmmonaute
  • cosmnoaute
  • cosmoanute
  • cosmonatue
  • cosmonauet
  • cosmonautte
  • cosmonnaute
  • cosmonuate
  • cosomnaute
  • cossmonaute
  • csomonaute
  • ocsmonaute

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cosmonaute - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

ccosmonaute1comsonaute2cosmmonaute1cosmnoaute2cosmoanute2cosmonatue2cosmonauet2cosmonautte1
Edit distance from "cosmonaute"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "cosmonaute"?
"cosmonaute" is spelled C-O-S-M-O-N-A-U-T-E. The IPA pronunciation is \kɔs.mɔ.not\.
What does "cosmonaute" mean?
As a noun, "cosmonaute" means: Membre de l’équipage d'une fusée ou d’un engin spatial soviétique ou russe.
What words are commonly confused with "cosmonaute"?
"cosmonaute" is commonly confused with "communauté". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "cosmonaute"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "cosmonaute" is \kɔs.mɔ.not\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "cosmonaute" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "cosmonaute", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

confondant#45,518chaufferie#45,504désaffecté#45,573borderline#45,480

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).

disculper14 variantsdistantes14 variantsCasterman14 variantscalamités14 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list