Costco
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#40,695
in French word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
5
similar word pairs
Costco is aFrenchname. It means: Société de commerce de détail opérant une chaîne de distribution fonctionnant sur le principe de libre-service de gros avec adhésion. Often confused with coco and cost.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Costco |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Name |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #40,695 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for Costco is 6 letters long, classified as aname. Corpus data places it at rank #40,695 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "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". 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, "coco", "cost", "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 Costco, spelled C-O-S-T-C-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Société de commerce de détail opérant une chaîne de distribution fonctionnant sur le principe de libre-service de gros avec adhésion.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccostco,coscto,cosstco,costcco,costoc,costtco,cotsco,csotco,ocstco
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Costco
Misspelling Variants of "Costco"
Frequency rank: #40,695 in French
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Nearby French words
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