coyote

\kɔ.jɔt\

/\kɔ.jɔt\/ noun

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

corpus weight

What this shows « coyote » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

coyote vs crypte
67% similar
coyote vs coyotes
86% similar
coyote vs côte
50% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for coyote
PropertyValue
Headwordcoyote
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\kɔ.jɔt\
Letters6
Frequency rank#27,024
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « coyote »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.coyotese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « courtage » (#27,023), « creusent » (#27,025), « corollaire » (#27,022). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « coyote » est au #27,024. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    Mammifère carnivore de la famille des canidés (Canis latrans), originaire d’Amérique du Nord, qui ressemble à un petit loup.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how coyote appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Aux États-Unis, le coyote s’appelle souvent loup de prairie.
  2. 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.

ccoyote1cooyte2coyoet2coyotte1coytoe2coyyote1cyoote2ocyote2
Edit distance from "coyote"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "coyote"?
"coyote" is spelled C-O-Y-O-T-E. The IPA pronunciation is \kɔ.jɔt\.
What does "coyote" mean?
As a noun, "coyote" means: Mammifère carnivore de la famille des canidés (Canis latrans), originaire d’Amérique du Nord, qui ressemble à un petit loup.
What words are commonly confused with "coyote"?
"coyote" is commonly confused with "crypte", "coyotes", "côte". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "coyote"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "coyote" is \kɔ.jɔt\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "coyote" come from?
"coyote" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "coyote", not the corpus desk frequency band.

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).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list