Costco
The verdict
“Costco” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #40,695. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #40,695
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Société de commerce de détail opérant une chaîne de distribution fonctionnant sur le principe de libre-service de gros avec adhésion.
Corpus desk
Index FR-costco · Costco · French
Costco · rank #40,695 · 9 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #40,695
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH coul
Nearest frequency peer: coul (+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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « Costco »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- cordial
cordial
59,309 corpus weight
- cordée
cordée
59,308 corpus weight
- Costco
Costco
59,306 corpus weight
- coul
coul
59,305 corpus weight
- coursiers
coursiers
59,304 corpus weight
- courtisans
courtisans
59,303 corpus weight
What this shows « Costco » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Costco |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #40,695 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Costco »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around Costco, aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #40,695 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Société de commerce de détail opérant une chaîne de distribution fonctionnant sur le principe de libre-service de gros avec adhésion.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for Costco, with forms such as "ccostco", "coscto", and "cosstco". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "coco", "cost", "costa", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is Costco, spelled C-O-S-T-C-O.
Definition
- 1Société de commerce de détail opérant une chaîne de distribution fonctionnant sur le principe de libre-service de gros avec adhésion.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Costco appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Costco est déjà en France, alors qu’Atacadao arrivera en 2023.
Costco se fait accuser par ses clients d’utiliser un subterfuge pour faire mousser la popularité de sa carte de crédit et le renouvellement automatique de la carte de membre.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccostco
- coscto
- cosstco
- costcco
- costoc
- costtco
- cotsco
- csotco
- ocstco
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Costco - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Costco", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).