cosy
\kɔ.zi\
The verdict
“cosy” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #41,722. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #41,722
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Enveloppe fourrée, généralement en tissu ouatiné, dont on couvre une théière, un plat ou un œuf, pour en conserver la chaleur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cosy · cosy · French
cosy · rank #41,722 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #41,722
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Corot
Nearest frequency peer: Corot (-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 « cosy »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- convenant
convenant
58,282 corpus weight
- Corot
Corot
58,280 corpus weight
- cosy
cosy
58,279 corpus weight
- coït
coït
58,278 corpus weight
- critiquées
critiquées
58,277 corpus weight
- crossing
crossing
58,276 corpus weight
What this shows « cosy » 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 | cosy |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ.zi\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #41,722 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « cosy »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around cosy (IPA \kɔ.zi\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #41,722 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for cosy, with forms such as "ccosy", "cossy", and "cosyy". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Cs", "cy", "cou", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is cosy, spelled C-O-S-Y.
Definition
- 1Enveloppe fourrée, généralement en tissu ouatiné, dont on couvre une théière, un plat ou un œuf, pour en conserver la chaleur.
- 2Meuble composé d'une étagère qui entoure un lit sur sa tête et l'un de ses côtés.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cosy appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je cours à la salle à manger, aux magnifiques pièces de céramique, aux cuivres arabes patinés par le temps, où je suis certain de trouver toujours, à cinq heures, le thé servi sous un cosy en toile de Jouy, capitonnée d’ouate [sic], et les grandes tartines de pain grillé, rangées parallèlement dans un porte-toasts de vieil argent, et les délicieuses tranc…
demande tea cosy (couvre-théière en étoffes); animaux en étoffes; briquets pour dames; châles en crêpe de Chine; poudriers montés; sacs genre Gobelins; faire offres de 9 h. à midi.
Synonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccosy
- cossy
- cosyy
- coys
- csoy
- ocsy
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cosy - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).