côtoyés
\ko.twa.je\
The verdict
“côtoyés” is uncommon French (frequency #90,602 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,602
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe passé masculin pluriel de côtoyer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cotoyes · côtoyés · French
côtoyés · rank #90,602 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,602
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cédèrent
Nearest frequency peer: cédèrent (-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 « côtoyés »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cybernétiqu…
cybernétiques
9,403 corpus weight
- câbler
câbler
9,402 corpus weight
- câblées
câblées
9,401 corpus weight
- cédèrent
cédèrent
9,400 corpus weight
- côtoyés
côtoyés
9,399 corpus weight
- daba
daba
9,397 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « côtoyés » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | côtoyés |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ko.twa.je\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #90,602 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « côtoyés » en français
Rare enough to double-check
côtoyés is uncommon French at frequency #90,602 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ko.twa.je\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe passé masculin pluriel de côtoyer.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for côtoyés, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is côtoyés, spelled C-Ô-T-O-Y-É-S.
Definition
- 1Participe passé masculin pluriel de côtoyer.
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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