coussinet
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#74,684
in French word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
coussinet is aFrenchnoun. It means: Petit coussin. Pronounced \ku.si.nɛ\.
| 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) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for coussinet is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, 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.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for coussinet in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 coussinet, spelled C-O-U-S-S-I-N-E-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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
Frequency rank: #74,684 in French
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