cotre
\kɔtʁ\
The verdict
“cotre” is uncommon French (frequency #75,553 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,553
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Petit bâtiment de guerre à un mât dont la grande voile a beaucoup d’étendue.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cotre · cotre · French
cotre · rank #75,553 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,553
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Coumba
Nearest frequency peer: Coumba (+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 « cotre »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cosson
cosson
24,451 corpus weight
- Costanza
Costanza
24,450 corpus weight
- cotre
cotre
24,448 corpus weight
- Coumba
Coumba
24,447 corpus weight
- coupage
coupage
24,446 corpus weight
- courraient
courraient
24,445 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cotre » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cotre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔtʁ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #75,553 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cotre » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cotre is uncommon French at frequency #75,553 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɔtʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
cotre has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is cotre, spelled C-O-T-R-E.
Definition
- 1Petit bâtiment de guerre à un mât dont la grande voile a beaucoup d’étendue.
- 2Voilier 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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cotre appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Quoi qu’il en soit, l’eau de cette source, qui ne tarit jamais, est excellente, et les cotres de l’état y viennent renouveler leur provision, la trouvant bien préférable à celle qui se boit dans les ports voisins.
Chaque fois qu’ils approchaient d’un port quelconque ou d’une anse, elle s’enfermait sous le pont du cotre en tremblant et en gémissant comme un animal blessé.
Synonyms
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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