coton
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#6,074
in French word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
coton is aFrenchnoun. It means: Fibre textile végétale, issue de la bourre composée de filaments longs, fins, soyeux, qui enveloppe les graines du cotonnier. Pronounced \kɔ.tɔ̃\. It ranks #6,074 in French word frequency. Often confused with cotte and cotta.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | coton |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ.tɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #6,074 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for coton is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɔ.tɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #6,074 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for coton, with forms such as "ccoton", "cootn", and "cotno". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "cotte", "cotta", "côtoyé", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is coton, spelled C-O-T-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Fibre textile végétale, issue de la bourre composée de filaments longs, fins, soyeux, qui enveloppe les graines du cotonnier.
- 2Duvet formé de poils longs, entrecroisés et crépus, qu’on observe à la surface des fruits, des feuilles, etc., de certains végétaux.
- 3Bourre qui enveloppe le bourgeon de la vigne et de quelques autres arbres.
- 4Duvet follet qui vient aux joues et au menton des jeunes hommes.
- 5Chandail à manches longues habituellement fait de coton et servant à garder au chaud.
- 6Race de chien au poil long et blanc, qui rappelle la fibre du cotonnier.
- 7Partie dure et souvent filandreuse de certaines plantes.
- 8Brouillard.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccoton,cootn,cotno,cotonn,ctoon,octon
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for coton
Misspelling Variants of "coton"
Frequency rank: #6,074 in French
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