cothurne
\kɔ.tyʁn\
The verdict
“cothurne” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sorte de chaussure montante que portaient les anciens Grecs, entourant le pied et une partie du mollet.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cothurne · cothurne · French
cothurne · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "C" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cothurne |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ.tyʁn\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
cothurne is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɔ.tyʁn\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for cothurne in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is cothurne, spelled C-O-T-H-U-R-N-E.
Definition
- 1Sorte de chaussure montante que portaient les anciens Grecs, entourant le pied et une partie du mollet.
- 2Sorte de chaussure montante que portaient les anciens Grecs, entourant le pied et une partie du mollet.
- 3Tragédie, symbole du genre tragique, par opposition au brodequin ou à la socque qui est celui du genre comique.
- 4Chaussure montant jusqu’au mollet et lacée ; les lacets de ces souliers.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cothurne appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les capitaines, portant des cothurnes de bronze, s’étaient placés dans le chemin du milieu, sous un voile de pourpre à franges d’or, qui s’étendait depuis le mur des écuries jusqu’à la première terrasse du palais ; […]. .
Ils se tiennent sur des cothurnes ; c’est une chaussure haute quelquefois de quatre ou cinq pouces.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.