cotter
\kɔ.te\
The verdict
“cotter” is uncommon French (frequency #83,739 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,739
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variante orthographique du verbe coter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cotter · cotter · French
cotter · rank #83,739 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,739
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cordelier
Nearest frequency peer: cordelier (-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 « cotter »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- contreprodu…
contreproductif
16,266 corpus weight
- contributive
contributive
16,265 corpus weight
- cordelier
cordelier
16,263 corpus weight
- cotter
cotter
16,262 corpus weight
- crachaient
crachaient
16,260 corpus weight
- cramée
cramée
16,259 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cotter » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cotter |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kɔ.te\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #83,739 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cotter » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cotter is uncommon French at frequency #83,739 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \kɔ.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 7 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for cotter in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is cotter, spelled C-O-T-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1Variante orthographique du verbe coter.
- 2Jaillir ^([1]).
- 3Serrer, assujettir, fixer, caler, mettre une cotte ^([2]).
- 4Border un lit, mettre les bords de couverture sous le matelas.
- 5S’arrêter, hésiter en récitant ou en déclamant.
- 6Ne pas tomber d’accord sur une vente, sur un achat qui allaient être faits ; se tenir à très peu de chose.
- 7Fermer à clé.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cotter appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Cotter une porte, cotter une fenêtre, cotter un contrevent qui bat.
Voici la troisième fois que le vent fait tomber ce devant de cheminée : cottez-le donc avec soin.
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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