cota
\kɔ.ta\
The verdict
“cota” is uncommon French (frequency #84,666 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,666
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de coter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cota · cota · French
cota · rank #84,666 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,666
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH corporellement
Nearest frequency peer: corporellement (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « cota »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- controls
controls
15,339 corpus weight
- Cornillon
Cornillon
15,337 corpus weight
- corporellem…
corporellement
15,336 corpus weight
- cota
cota
15,335 corpus weight
- crafts
crafts
15,332 corpus weight
- crap
crap
15,331 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cota » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cota |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kɔ.ta\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #84,666 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cota » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cota is uncommon French at frequency #84,666 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \kɔ.ta\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de coter.".
No misspelling variants are generated for cota in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is cota, spelled C-O-T-A.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de coter.
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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