cotton
\ˈkɒt.ən\
The verdict
“cotton” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #25,956. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #25,956
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 19
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Coton.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cotton · cotton · French
cotton · rank #25,956 · 6 variants · 19 confusables
- FREQ-MID #25,956
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 19 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Corentin
Nearest frequency peer: Corentin (-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 « cotton »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- coordonnate…
coordonnateur
74,048 corpus weight
- coordonne
coordonne
74,047 corpus weight
- Corentin
Corentin
74,046 corpus weight
- cotton
cotton
74,045 corpus weight
- croustillant
croustillant
74,043 corpus weight
- custom
custom
74,042 corpus weight
What this shows « cotton » 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 | cotton |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈkɒt.ən\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #25,956 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 19 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « cotton »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around cotton (IPA \ˈkɒt.ən\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #25,956 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Coton.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for cotton, with forms such as "ccotton", "cototn", and "cottno". 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 19 confusable-pair relationships, "coupon", "Coulon", "coon", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is cotton, spelled C-O-T-T-O-N.
Definition
- 1Coton.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccotton
- cototn
- cottno
- cottonn
- ctoton
- octton
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cotton - 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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).