Costco

name

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.

Key facts for Costco
PropertyValue
HeadwordCostco
LanguageFrench
Part of speechName
Letters6
Frequency rank#40,695
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs5
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of Costco in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

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

  1. 1
    Société 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"

ccostco7coscto6cosstco7costcco7costoc6costtco7cotsco6csotco6
Misspelling Variants of "Costco"

Frequency rank: #40,695 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Costco"?
"Costco" is spelled C-O-S-T-C-O.
What does "Costco" mean?
As a name, "Costco" means: Société de commerce de détail opérant une chaîne de distribution fonctionnant sur le principe de libre-service de gros avec adhésion.
What words are commonly confused with "Costco"?
"Costco" is commonly confused with "coco", "cost", "costa". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "Costco" come from?
"Costco" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.