côtelé
\ko.tle\
The verdict
“côtelé” is uncommon French (frequency #96,807 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,807
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui a des raies en saillie régulières, des cannelures.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cotele · côtelé · French
côtelé · rank #96,807 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,807
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Céphalonie
Nearest frequency peer: Céphalonie (-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 « côtelé »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- currently
currently
3,197 corpus weight
- Céphalonie
Céphalonie
3,195 corpus weight
- côtelé
côtelé
3,194 corpus weight
- Dagon
Dagon
3,193 corpus weight
- daire
daire
3,192 corpus weight
- Damen
Damen
3,191 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « côtelé » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | côtelé |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ko.tle\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #96,807 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « côtelé » en français
Rare enough to double-check
côtelé is uncommon French at frequency #96,807 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ko.tle\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui a des raies en saillie régulières, des cannelures.".
No misspelling variants are generated for côtelé in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is côtelé, spelled C-Ô-T-E-L-É.
Definition
- 1Qui a des raies en saillie régulières, des cannelures.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how côtelé appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Des brasseries plantent des terrasses de parasols côtelés d’orange.
Mon attention a été attirée par un pantalon de velours côtelé, assez usagé, et qui séchait sur un fil de fer à proximité de la porte de la cuisine, ou plus précisément en face de cette porte.
This word in other languages
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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