kot
\kɔt\
The verdict
“kot” is uncommon French (frequency #80,348 among 737 “K” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,348
- frequency rank, French
- 737
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Chambre, maison ou appartement loué par un étudiant et situé près de son université ou sa haute école.
Corpus desk
Index FR-kot · kot · French
kot · rank #80,348 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,348
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 737
- PHOTO-FINISH laboratories
Nearest frequency peer: laboratories (+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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « kot »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- kidnappeurs
kidnappeurs
19,656 corpus weight
- killa
killa
19,655 corpus weight
- kot
kot
19,653 corpus weight
- laboratories
laboratories
19,652 corpus weight
- Laborie
Laborie
19,651 corpus weight
- laboure
laboure
19,650 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « kot » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | kot |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔt\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #80,348 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « kot » en français
Rare enough to double-check
kot is uncommon French at frequency #80,348 among 737 “K” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɔt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Chambre, maison ou appartement loué par un étudiant et situé près de son université ou sa haute école.".
Zero misspellings are on record for kot in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is kot, spelled K-O-T.
Definition
- 1Chambre, maison ou appartement loué par un étudiant et situé près de son université ou sa haute école.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how kot appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En tout cas, dépêche-toi d’avaler un truc, parce que je t’attends à 20h à mon kot.
Le Syndicat des étudiants locataires de Louvain-la-Neuve (Syello) a installé symboliquement mardi midi un campement de tentes devant une des agences immobilières de la cité universitaire, pour exprimer le ras-le-bol des étudiants à propos des conditions de logement dans certains kots.
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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