Cotten

name

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The verdict

“Cotten” is uncommon French (frequency #92,590 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#92,590
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.

Corpus desk

Index FR-cotten · Cotten · French

Cotten · rank #92,590 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #92,590
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH corvin

Nearest frequency peer: corvin (-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 « Cotten »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Cotten » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for Cotten
PropertyValue
HeadwordCotten
LanguageFrench
Part of speechProper noun
Letters6
Frequency rank#92,590
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « Cotten » en français

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).Cottentombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Voisins rares de la même bande: « corvin » (#92,589), « couplages » (#92,591), « corniaud » (#92,588). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « Cotten » est au #92,590. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

Cotten is uncommon French at frequency #92,590 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".

No misspelling variants are generated for Cotten in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.

Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Cotten, spelled C-O-T-T-E-N.

Definition

  1. 1
    Nom de famille.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how Cotten appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Le Normand, qui a terminé 2e de la Solo Maître CoQ cette année, aura fort à faire face à de jeunes marins qui se sont récemment illustrés sur le circuit, à commencer par Guillaume Pirouelle, vainqueur du Spi Ouest France il y a quelques mois et de la Société Guy-Cotten.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Cotten"?
"Cotten" is spelled C-O-T-T-E-N.
What does "Cotten" mean?
As a proper noun, "Cotten" means: Nom de famille.
What language does "Cotten" come from?
"Cotten" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Cotten", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

corvin#92,589cumbia#92,600Dakhla#92,613deputy#92,617

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list