coussinet
\ku.si.nɛ\
The verdict
“coussinet” is an uncommon French word, ranked #74,684 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #74,684
- frequency rank, French
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Petit coussin.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | coussinet |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ku.si.nɛ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #74,684 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “coussinet” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for coussinet is 9 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ku.si.nɛ\. Corpus data places it at rank #74,684 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 edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for coussinet, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is coussinet, spelled C-O-U-S-S-I-N-E-T.
Definition
- 1Petit coussin.
- 2Pièce mécanique molle (en étoffe rembourrée, en cuir, en bois, ou en métal tendre, etc.), destinée à éviter un frottement ou à favoriser un glissement.
- 3Pièce de fonte sur laquelle reposent certains rails.
- 4Partie renflée en forme de coussin formant le milieu de la bande qui, des deux côtés de la colonne, s’enroule en volutes, dans un chapiteau de l’ordre dorique.
- 5Partie située sous les pattes et directement en contact avec le sol chez certains animaux, comme les chats, les chiens, les loups, les renards, etc. ; callosités nuptiales chez les batraciens.
- 6Partie se situant sous le bourgeon ou plus précisément sous le pétiole (on parle de « coussinet foliaire » ou de « bourrelet de pétiole » ou de « pulvinus » chez les scientifiques), sorte de cicatrice laissée par la chute des feuilles, qui a souvent la forme d’un bourrelet saillant.
- 7Organe de forme tubulaire interposé entre un arbre et son logement pour faciliter le mouvement de rotation.
- 8Bande de tissu ou végétale conçue pour répartir le poids d'une charge portée sur la tête
This word in other languages
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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Using “coussinet”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is C-O-U-S-S-I-N-E-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ku.si.nɛ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.