cosplay
French, noun/kɔs.plɛ/
cosplay is spelled C-O-S-P-L-A-Y (7 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written French, the 32,322nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Cosplay is a French masculine noun meaning “cosplay” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Pratique consistant à se costumer à l’image de personnages de mangas, de jeux vidéos, etc”.
What does cosplay mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinecosplay
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Pratique consistant à se costumer à l’image de personnages de mangas, de jeux vidéos, etc.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of cosplay
- cosplays plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce cosplay?
- /kɔs.plɛ/
- \kɔs.plɛ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to cosplay
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is cosplay in French?
cosplay appears about once in every 1 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).