cosset
Letters
6 characters
Language
French
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
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similar word pairs
cosset is aFrenchnoun. It means: Animal de compagnie, souvent plus particulièrement un agneau. Pronounced \ˈkɒs.ɪt\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cosset |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈkɒs.ɪt\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for cosset is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ˈkɒs.ɪt\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Animal de compagnie, souvent plus particulièrement un agneau.".
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for cosset in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is cosset, spelled C-O-S-S-E-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Animal de compagnie, souvent plus particulièrement un agneau.
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