cosson
\kɔ.sɔ̃\
The verdict
“cosson” is uncommon French (frequency #75,550 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,550
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Genre de coléoptères qui vivent sous l’écorce des arbres.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cosson · cosson · French
cosson · rank #75,550 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,550
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Cosima
Nearest frequency peer: Cosima (-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 « cosson »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cordiaux
cordiaux
24,455 corpus weight
- Cosima
Cosima
24,452 corpus weight
- cosson
cosson
24,451 corpus weight
- Costanza
Costanza
24,450 corpus weight
- cotre
cotre
24,448 corpus weight
- Coumba
Coumba
24,447 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cosson » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cosson |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ.sɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #75,550 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cosson » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cosson is uncommon French at frequency #75,550 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɔ.sɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for cosson in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is cosson, spelled C-O-S-S-O-N.
Definition
- 1Genre de coléoptères qui vivent sous l’écorce des arbres.
- 2Espèce de charançon qui attaque les pois, les fèves, le blé.
- 3Marchand de volailles et d’œufs ; coquetier ; volailler.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cosson appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Réaumur, tom. 2, p. 483, dit : « Nous parlerons plus au long du cosson des pois, lorsque nous en serons à l'histoire des scarabés. » On sait que le cosson du pois est la bruche du pois, Bruchus pisi.
Le premier qui a voulu me ravoir, c'est le cosson qui vient ramasser les œufs du village toutes les semaines, vous savez, le Basile, le gros rouge cayatte-là, celui qui a une vieille auto en fer-blanc […].
Synonyms
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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