cosplay
\kɔs.plɛ\
The verdict
“cosplay” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #32,359. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #32,359
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pratique consistant à se costumer à l’image de personnages de mangas, de jeux vidéos, etc.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cosplay · cosplay · French
cosplay · rank #32,359 · 11 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #32,359
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cornichons
Nearest frequency peer: cornichons (-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 « cosplay »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- coqueluche
coqueluche
67,645 corpus weight
- Cordoue
Cordoue
67,644 corpus weight
- cornichons
cornichons
67,643 corpus weight
- cosplay
cosplay
67,642 corpus weight
- couve
couve
67,641 corpus weight
- crique
crique
67,640 corpus weight
What this shows « cosplay » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cosplay |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔs.plɛ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #32,359 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « cosplay »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around cosplay (IPA \kɔs.plɛ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #32,359 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pratique consistant à se costumer à l’image de personnages de mangas, de jeux vidéos, etc.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for cosplay, with forms such as "ccosplay", "copslay", and "coslpay". 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. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is cosplay, spelled C-O-S-P-L-A-Y.
Definition
- 1Pratique consistant à se costumer à l’image de personnages de mangas, de jeux vidéos, etc.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cosplay appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Au Japon, les défilés de cosplay sont très prisés par les jeunes.
Dans le cadre du festival Anima se déroulait ce dimanche à Flagey, un concours de cosplay ou costume playing.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccosplay
- copslay
- coslpay
- cospaly
- cosplayy
- cospllay
- cosplya
- cospplay
- cossplay
- csoplay
- ocsplay
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cosplay - 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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).