costard

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for costard is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɔs.taʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #18,971 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for costard, with forms such as "ccostard", "cosatrd", and "cosstard". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "costaud", "costauds", "costa", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

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 costard, spelled C-O-S-T-A-R-D, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.