côtiers
\ko.tje\
The verdict
“côtiers” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #33,205. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #33,205
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 18
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 2, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de côtier.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cotiers · côtiers · French
côtiers · rank #33,205 · 11 variants · 18 confusables
- FREQ-MID #33,205
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 18 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cédés
Nearest frequency peer: cédés (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “côtiers”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- cutané
cutané
66,799 corpus weight
- cyclo
cyclo
66,798 corpus weight
- cédés
cédés
66,797 corpus weight
- côtiers
côtiers
66,796 corpus weight
- D4
D4
66,795 corpus weight
- Danton
Danton
66,794 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “côtiers” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | côtiers |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ko.tje\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #33,205 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 18 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “côtiers” sits in French frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around côtiers (IPA \ko.tje\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #33,205 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Masculin pluriel de côtier.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for côtiers, with forms such as "ccôtiers", "cotiers", and "ctôiers". 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 18 confusable-pair relationships, "covers", "cotiser", "courtiers", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is côtiers, spelled C-Ô-T-I-E-R-S.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de côtier.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how côtiers appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les zones construites sur les anciens deltas des fleuves côtiers sont déjà celles qui subissent le plus le recul du trait de côte, la côte tendant à se rectilinéariser, en gommant complètement les dernières aspérités. *
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccôtiers
- cotiers
- ctôiers
- côiters
- côteirs
- côtierrs
- côtierss
- côtiesr
- côtires
- côttiers
- ôctiers
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of côtiers - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of September 2, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "côtiers", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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 (11 here; floor ≥5).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.