cotonnière
\kɔ.tɔ.njɛʁ\
The verdict
“cotonnière” is uncommon French (frequency #94,654 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #94,654
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ouvrière qui travaille le coton.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cotonniere · cotonnière · French
cotonnière · rank #94,654 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #94,654
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cotignac
Nearest frequency peer: cotignac (-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 « cotonnière »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- copule
copule
5,352 corpus weight
- cornaline
cornaline
5,351 corpus weight
- cotignac
cotignac
5,348 corpus weight
- cotonnière
cotonnière
5,347 corpus weight
- coulisser
coulisser
5,345 corpus weight
- cred
cred
5,342 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cotonnière » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cotonnière |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ.tɔ.njɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #94,654 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cotonnière » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cotonnière is uncommon French at frequency #94,654 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɔ.tɔ.njɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for cotonnière, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is cotonnière, spelled C-O-T-O-N-N-I-È-R-E.
Definition
- 1Ouvrière qui travaille le coton.
- 2Nom vernaculaire générique des plantes appartenant au genre Filago de la famille des Astéracées.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how cotonnière appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Voici la cotonnière négligée. C’est une fleur de la famille des pissenlits.
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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