cotre
\kɔtʁ\
The verdict
“cotre” is an uncommon French word, ranked #75,553 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #75,553
- frequency rank, French
- 5
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Petit bâtiment de guerre à un mât dont la grande voile a beaucoup d’étendue.
| 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) |
Where “cotre” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for cotre is 5 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɔtʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #75,553 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
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.
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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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Using “cotre”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is C-O-T-R-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \kɔtʁ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.