côtoient
\ko.twa\
The verdict
“côtoient” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #21,904. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #21,904
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de côtoyer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cotoient · côtoient · French
côtoient · rank #21,904 · 12 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #21,904
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cuvée
Nearest frequency peer: cuvée (-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 « côtoient »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- culpabiliser
culpabiliser
78,100 corpus weight
- curiosités
curiosités
78,099 corpus weight
- cuvée
cuvée
78,098 corpus weight
- côtoient
côtoient
78,097 corpus weight
- Davidson
Davidson
78,096 corpus weight
- dentifrice
dentifrice
78,095 corpus weight
What this shows « côtoient » 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 | côtoient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ko.twa\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #21,904 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « côtoient »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around côtoient (IPA \ko.twa\), averb. Corpus frequency is #21,904 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for côtoient, with forms such as "ccôtoient", "cotoient", and "ctôoient". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "croient", "côtoie", "contient", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is côtoient, spelled C-Ô-T-O-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de côtoyer.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du subjonctif présent de côtoyer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how côtoient appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les adresses gourmandes connaissent le même phénomène, les brasseries, salons de thé, cafés-restaurants côtoient les fast-food, et les restaurants de cuisine étrangère font leur apparition.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccôtoient
- cotoient
- ctôoient
- côotient
- côtioent
- côtoeint
- côtoiennt
- côtoientt
- côtoietn
- côtoinet
- côttoient
- ôctoient
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of côtoient - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "côtoient", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).