Cotentin
\kɔ.tɑ̃.tɛ̃\
The verdict
“Cotentin” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #34,039. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #34,039
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Péninsule de Normandie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cotentin · Cotentin · French
Cotentin · rank #34,039 · 12 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #34,039
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH corinthiens
Nearest frequency peer: corinthiens (-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 « Cotentin »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- contreparti…
contreparties
65,966 corpus weight
- convenus
convenus
65,965 corpus weight
- corinthiens
corinthiens
65,963 corpus weight
- Cotentin
Cotentin
65,962 corpus weight
- couplage
couplage
65,961 corpus weight
- courtisane
courtisane
65,960 corpus weight
What this shows « Cotentin » 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 | Cotentin |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \kɔ.tɑ̃.tɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #34,039 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Cotentin »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around Cotentin (IPA \kɔ.tɑ̃.tɛ̃\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #34,039 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Péninsule de Normandie.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for Cotentin, with forms such as "ccotentin", "coetntin", and "cotenitn". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "Corentin", "contention", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is Cotentin, spelled C-O-T-E-N-T-I-N.
Definition
- 1Péninsule de Normandie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Cotentin appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En cette curieuse région du Cotentin, toute bruissante des verdoyantes ramées, où chaque chaumière se tapit mystérieusement au détour d’une cache, où chaque lopin s’embroussaille de genêt, de houx et d’épine, ou se clôt de murets de pierres sèches, symboles du droit de possession — et du goût du repli — les vieilles légendes s’étaient fidèlement transmise…
Le Cotentin était le bras que tendait la France sous le ciel pour s’apercevoir qu’il pleuvait.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccotentin
- coetntin
- cotenitn
- cotenntin
- cotentinn
- cotentni
- cotenttin
- cotetnin
- cotnetin
- cottentin
- ctoentin
- octentin
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Cotentin - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).