coterie
\kɔt.ʁi\
The verdict
“coterie” is uncommon French (frequency #88,494 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,494
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Société de villageois réunis pour tenir d’un seigneur quelque héritage.
Corpus desk
Index FR-coterie · coterie · French
coterie · rank #88,494 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,494
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH coréalisé
Nearest frequency peer: coréalisé (-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 « coterie »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- corticales
corticales
11,510 corpus weight
- corvus
corvus
11,509 corpus weight
- coréalisé
coréalisé
11,508 corpus weight
- coterie
coterie
11,507 corpus weight
- coursera
coursera
11,505 corpus weight
- crayeux
crayeux
11,504 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « coterie » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | coterie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔt.ʁi\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #88,494 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « coterie » en français
Rare enough to double-check
coterie is uncommon French at frequency #88,494 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɔt.ʁi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for coterie in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is coterie, spelled C-O-T-E-R-I-E.
Definition
- 1Société de villageois réunis pour tenir d’un seigneur quelque héritage.
- 2Groupe d’ouvriers appartenant à un même corps de métier, spécialement dans le cadre du compagnonnage et des métiers du bâtiment.
- 3Groupe restreint de personnes liées par des intérêts ou des idées communes et qui cabalent contre ceux qui sont en dehors de ce groupe.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how coterie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un coup ébranla les ais de la fenêtre, tandis qu’une grosse voix, joyeuse et bourrue, criait au dehors : — Ben quoi ! La coterie ! Tout le monde roupille là dedans ; y a pu d’amour ?
[Il] monta vers la gare, accompagné par la coterie qui portait en chantant deux lourdes caisses pleines de ses outils.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).