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“coït” and “croft” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.

#41,723
“coït” frequency rank
#39,733
“croft” frequency rank
81456
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature coït croft
Definition Accouplement sexuel. Petite exploitation agricole clôturée, comprenant une habitation.

Where the eye mixes coït and croft

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 3 letters in sequence. coït runs 4 letters (CVCC) against croft's 5 (CCVCC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

4 ch
coït
5 ch
croft

Look-alike desk: coït vs croft

A purely visual mix-up. coït (\kɔ.it\) and croft (\kɹɒft\) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 81456, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

coït is recorded at frequency rank #41,723, classified as anoun, pronounced \kɔ.it\. croft is at rank #39,733, tagged as anoun, pronounced \kɹɒft\.

Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.

With a confusion score of 81456, this pair ranks #18,706 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of coït vs croft

Shared letters: cot. Private to "coït": ï. Private to "croft": fr.

"coït" · 4 letters · shape CVCC  ·  "croft" · 5 letters · shape CCVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • croft ← ccroft · corft · crfot · crofft · croftt · crotf · crroft · rcoft

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "coït" and "croft" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No. They are said differently (\kɔ.it\ versus \kɹɒft\) and carry different meanings; reading the sentence aloud is usually enough to catch the wrong one.
Frequency check: "coït" vs "croft" - which ranks higher?
"croft" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #39,733 in our French list, against #41,723 for "coït". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

Pronunciation already separates them, if the page still looks alike, the dictionary links below settle it.

  • Full dictionary entry for "coït" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "croft" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #18,706 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "coït" and "croft" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "coït vs coon". Nearby pair
  • Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes

Confusion rank #18,706 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list