côtière
\ko.tjɛʁ\
The verdict
“côtière” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #17,402. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #17,402
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 15
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Planche de jardinage, qui va un peu en talus et qui est ordinairement adossée à une muraille de manière à recevoir le maximum des premières chaleurs du printemps.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cotiere · côtière · French
côtière · rank #17,402 · 10 variants · 15 confusables
- FREQ-MID #17,402
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 15 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH CSG
Nearest frequency peer: CSG (-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 « côtière »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- critiquée
critiquée
82,602 corpus weight
- crucifix
crucifix
82,601 corpus weight
- CSG
CSG
82,600 corpus weight
- côtière
côtière
82,599 corpus weight
- dauphine
dauphine
82,598 corpus weight
- days
days
82,597 corpus weight
What this shows « côtière » 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 | côtière |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ko.tjɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #17,402 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 15 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « côtière »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around côtière (IPA \ko.tjɛʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #17,402 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Planche de jardinage, qui va un peu en talus et qui est ordinairement adossée à une muraille de manière à recevoir le maximum des premières chaleurs du printemps.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for côtière, with forms such as "ccôtière", "cotiere", and "ctôière". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 15 confusable-pair relationships, "côtiers", "cotiser", "côtières", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is côtière, spelled C-Ô-T-I-È-R-E.
Definition
- 1Planche de jardinage, qui va un peu en talus et qui est ordinairement adossée à une muraille de manière à recevoir le maximum des premières chaleurs du printemps.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how côtière appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Cette côtière est propre pour des pois.
Synonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccôtière
- cotiere
- ctôière
- côitère
- côtirèe
- côtièer
- côtièrre
- côttière
- côtèire
- ôctière
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of côtière - 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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).