cosmos
\kɔs.mos\
The verdict
“cosmos” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #17,103. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #17,103
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - L’Univers.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cosmos · cosmos · French
cosmos · rank #17,103 · 9 variants · 10 confusables
- FREQ-MID #17,103
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH controversée
Nearest frequency peer: controversée (-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 « cosmos »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- confondent
confondent
82,901 corpus weight
- contraignant
contraignant
82,900 corpus weight
- controversée
controversée
82,899 corpus weight
- cosmos
cosmos
82,898 corpus weight
- crazy
crazy
82,897 corpus weight
- croissants
croissants
82,896 corpus weight
What this shows « cosmos » 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 | cosmos |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔs.mos\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #17,103 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « cosmos »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around cosmos (IPA \kɔs.mos\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #17,103 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for cosmos, with forms such as "ccosmos", "comsos", and "cosmmos". 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 10 confusable-pair relationships, "como", "coms", "cocos", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is cosmos, spelled C-O-S-M-O-S.
Definition
- 1L’Univers.
- 2Espace intersidéral.
- 3Fleur d’origine mexicaine.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cosmos appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dès le principe donc, c’est la négation du cosmos avicennien. Les conséquences vont de soi : la multiplication des êtres célestes et de leurs hiérarchies n’a plus de raison d’être « nécessaire ».
L’homme primitif avait la culture du silex taillé qui le reliait obscurément, mais complètement, à l’ensemble du cosmos.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccosmos
- comsos
- cosmmos
- cosmoss
- cosmso
- cosoms
- cossmos
- csomos
- ocsmos
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cosmos - 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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).