coyote
\kɔ.jɔt\
The verdict
“coyote” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #27,024. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #27,024
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mammifère carnivore de la famille des canidés (Canis latrans), originaire d’Amérique du Nord, qui ressemble à un petit loup.
Corpus desk
Index FR-coyote · coyote · French
coyote · rank #27,024 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #27,024
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH courtage
Nearest frequency peer: courtage (-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 « coyote »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- contribua
contribua
72,980 corpus weight
- corollaire
corollaire
72,979 corpus weight
- courtage
courtage
72,978 corpus weight
- coyote
coyote
72,977 corpus weight
- creusent
creusent
72,976 corpus weight
- crop
crop
72,975 corpus weight
What this shows « coyote » 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 | coyote |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ.jɔt\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #27,024 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « coyote »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around coyote (IPA \kɔ.jɔt\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #27,024 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Mammifère carnivore de la famille des canidés (Canis latrans), originaire d’Amérique du Nord, qui ressemble à un petit loup.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for coyote, with forms such as "ccoyote", "cooyte", and "coyoet". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "crypte", "coyotes", "côte", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is coyote, spelled C-O-Y-O-T-E.
Definition
- 1Mammifère carnivore de la famille des canidés (Canis latrans), originaire d’Amérique du Nord, qui ressemble à un petit loup.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how coyote appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Aux États-Unis, le coyote s’appelle souvent loup de prairie.
De temps à autre, pour maintenir la liaison, je lançais le cri de l’oiseau-moqueur — « si parfaitement imité que sa femelle s'y fût trompée » — et Paul me répondait par « l’aboiement rauque du coyote », parfaitement imité, lui aussi : mais imité — faute de coyote — de celui du chien de la boulangère, un roquet galeux qui attaquait parfois nos fonds de cul…
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccoyote
- cooyte
- coyoet
- coyotte
- coytoe
- coyyote
- cyoote
- ocyote
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of coyote - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 (8 here; floor ≥5).