cottage
\kɔ.taʒ\
The verdict
“cottage” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #31,424. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #31,424
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Petite et élégante maison de campagne.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cottage · cottage · French
cottage · rank #31,424 · 8 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-MID #31,424
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cors
Nearest frequency peer: cors (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « cottage »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- converse
converse
68,580 corpus weight
- cormier
cormier
68,579 corpus weight
- cors
cors
68,578 corpus weight
- cottage
cottage
68,577 corpus weight
- couvents
couvents
68,576 corpus weight
- croc
croc
68,575 corpus weight
What this shows « cottage » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cottage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ.taʒ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #31,424 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « cottage »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around cottage (IPA \kɔ.taʒ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #31,424 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Petite et élégante maison de campagne.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for cottage, with forms such as "ccottage", "cotage", and "cotatge". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 9 confusable-pair relationships, "cotte", "courage", "courtage", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 cottage, spelled C-O-T-T-A-G-E.
Definition
- 1Petite et élégante maison de campagne.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cottage appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le propriétaire de la villa dont elle dépendait, […], eut la fantaisie de mettre cette maisonnette en harmonie avec les somptuosités de sa demeure, et la fit reconstruire sur le modèle d’un cottage.
Les Galles auraient d’ailleurs prévu de gagner Anmer Hall, leur cottage situé sur le domaine royal de Sandringham, à la fin de l’année scolaire.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccottage
- cotage
- cotatge
- cottaeg
- cottagge
- cottgae
- ctotage
- octtage
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cottage - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).