cotillon
\kɔ.ti.jɔ̃\
The verdict
“cotillon” is uncommon French (frequency #90,583 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,583
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Cotte ou jupe de dessous.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cotillon · cotillon · French
cotillon · rank #90,583 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,583
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH costières
Nearest frequency peer: costières (-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 « cotillon »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Corelli
Corelli
9,422 corpus weight
- costières
costières
9,419 corpus weight
- cotillon
cotillon
9,418 corpus weight
- coupantes
coupantes
9,417 corpus weight
- courbures
courbures
9,416 corpus weight
- cram
cram
9,414 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cotillon » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cotillon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ.ti.jɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #90,583 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cotillon » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cotillon is uncommon French at frequency #90,583 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɔ.ti.jɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for cotillon in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is cotillon, spelled C-O-T-I-L-L-O-N.
Definition
- 1Cotte ou jupe de dessous.
- 2Jupon des femmes du peuple et des paysannes.
- 3Femme, dans un jeu de séduction.
- 4Danse avec figures variées qui terminait certains bals.
- 5Accessoire de fête en papier ou carton.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cotillon appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ma femme a trente-six cotillons et j’ai même pas une culotte !
Une fille passa, conduisant un troupeau de dindons ; elle était vêtue d’un cotillon ignoble, et elle était sans beauté.
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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