cotre
French, noun/kɔtʁ/
cotre is spelled C-O-T-R-E (5 letters) and appears about once in every 5 million words in written French, the 75,533rd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Cotre is a French masculine noun meaning “cutter (sailboat)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Petit bâtiment de guerre à un mât dont la grande voile a beaucoup d’étendue”.
What does cotre mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinecutter (sailboat)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Petit bâtiment de guerre à un mât dont la grande voile a beaucoup d’étendue. 2. Voilier classique à un mât, avec grand-voile, et deux voiles d’avant, en général un yankee et une trinquette intermédiaire de type solent. Si le gréement ne comprend qu’une voile d’avant, un foc, le voilier est un sloop.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of cotre
- cotres plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce cotre?
- /kɔtʁ/
- \kɔtʁ\
- [kɔtʁ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to cotre
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is cotre in French?
cotre appears about once in every 5 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).