cossette
\kɔ.sɛt\
The verdict
“cossette” is uncommon French (frequency #66,622 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,622
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Morceau issu du déchiquetage de racines de chicorée ou de betterave pour la nourriture animale ou l’industrie sucrière
Corpus desk
Index FR-cossette · cossette · French
cossette · rank #66,622 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,622
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH costumier
Nearest frequency peer: costumier (+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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « cossette »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Cornish
Cornish
33,382 corpus weight
- corporatives
corporatives
33,381 corpus weight
- cossette
cossette
33,379 corpus weight
- costumier
costumier
33,378 corpus weight
- coucherai
coucherai
33,377 corpus weight
- couronnant
couronnant
33,376 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cossette » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cossette |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ.sɛt\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #66,622 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cossette » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cossette is uncommon French at frequency #66,622 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɔ.sɛt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
cossette doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is cossette, spelled C-O-S-S-E-T-T-E.
Definition
- 1Morceau issu du déchiquetage de racines de chicorée ou de betterave pour la nourriture animale ou l’industrie sucrière
- 2Petit dés, forme sous laquelle peut être débitée certains fromages.
- 3Petites bottes de racines de chicorée.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cossette appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Cet appareil est construit différemment, […] : comme dans le premier plan décrit il déverse la cossette dans une hélice compresseuse.
Ces fragments, qui portent le nom de cossettes, sont torréfiés dans de grands brûloirs à café, […] ; on les pulvérise entre des cylindres, puis, après un blutage, la poudre grossière est mise en paquets. On ajoute quelquefois, après le grillage, un peu de beurre pour lustrer les cossettes et leur donner l’aspect du café brûlé.
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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