coussin
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#14,649
in French word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
6
similar word pairs
coussin is aFrenchnoun. It means: Sorte de sac cousu de tous les côtés composé de tissu ou de cuir et rempli de plume, de bourre ou de crin, etc., pour s’appuyer, pour s’asseoir, pour poser les pieds ou bien simplement pour décorer. Pronounced \ku.sɛ̃\. Often confused with coussins and Cousin.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | coussin |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ku.sɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #14,649 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for coussin is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ku.sɛ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #14,649 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for coussin, with forms such as "ccoussin", "cosusin", and "coussinn". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "coussins", "Cousin", "cassin", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is coussin, spelled C-O-U-S-S-I-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Sorte de sac cousu de tous les côtés composé de tissu ou de cuir et rempli de plume, de bourre ou de crin, etc., pour s’appuyer, pour s’asseoir, pour poser les pieds ou bien simplement pour décorer.
- 2Objet rembourré qui sert à soutenir la tête quand on est couché, par exemple sur un lit.
- 3Tout dispositif qui rappelle la forme d’un coussin et qui sert, en général, à éviter les frottements, comme dans un collier d’attelage, une machine électrique, etc.
- 4Base.
- 5Pièce de bois tendre pour préserver les barres.
- 6Palier en filin destiné à protéger une amarre, ou une voile contre l'usure due au frottement.
- 7Planchette de bois dont l’une des faces est rembourrée et que les doreurs utilisent pour poser les feuilles d’or qu’ils doivent couper.
- 8Boite carrée dont l’extérieur est rembourré et sert de métier à dentelle.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccoussin,cosusin,coussinn,coussni,cuossin,ocussin
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "coussin"
Frequency rank: #14,649 in French
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