cotonneux
\kɔ.tɔ.nø\
The verdict
“cotonneux” is uncommon French (frequency #87,499 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,499
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est couvert d’un duvet analogue au coton.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cotonneux · cotonneux · French
cotonneux · rank #87,499 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,499
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cotisant
Nearest frequency peer: cotisant (-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 « cotonneux »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- copernicien…
copernicienne
12,507 corpus weight
- correctrice
correctrice
12,506 corpus weight
- cotisant
cotisant
12,503 corpus weight
- cotonneux
cotonneux
12,502 corpus weight
- crisper
crisper
12,499 corpus weight
- crook
crook
12,498 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cotonneux » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cotonneux |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kɔ.tɔ.nø\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #87,499 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cotonneux » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cotonneux is uncommon French at frequency #87,499 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \kɔ.tɔ.nø\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for cotonneux, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is cotonneux, spelled C-O-T-O-N-N-E-U-X.
Definition
- 1Qui est couvert d’un duvet analogue au coton.
- 2Qui est devenu mollasse et comme spongieux.
- 3Qui a, au toucher, la douceur du coton, ou qui a l’apparence du coton.
- 4Qui manque d’énergie ; mou.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cotonneux appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Tige cotonneuse.
Pommes, pêches, poires cotonneuses.
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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