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

#33,619
“connes” frequency rank
#23,817
“cotées” frequency rank
57436
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature connes cotées
Definition Féminin pluriel de con. Féminin pluriel de coté.

Where the eye mixes connes and cotées

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 4 letters in sequence. connes (CVCCVC) and cotées (CVCVVC) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.

6 ch
connes
6 ch
cotées

Look-alike desk: connes vs cotées

A purely visual mix-up. connes (\kɔn\) and cotées (\kɔ.te\) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 57436, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

connes is recorded at frequency rank #33,619, classified as anadj, pronounced \kɔn\. cotées is at rank #23,817, tagged as anadj, pronounced \kɔ.te\.

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 57436, this pair ranks #115,056 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of connes vs cotées

Shared letters: ceos. Private to "connes": n. Private to "cotées": té.

"connes" · 6 letters · shape CVCCVC  ·  "cotées" · 6 letters · shape CVCVVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • connes ← cconnes · cnones · conens · conness · connse · ocnnes

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "connes" and "cotées" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No. They are said differently (\kɔn\ versus \kɔ.te\) and carry different meanings; reading the sentence aloud is usually enough to catch the wrong one.
In ordinary French text, does "connes" or "cotées" show up more?
"cotées" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #23,817 in our French list, against #33,619 for "connes". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

Visual near-miss handled. Browse the word pages or a neighbour when the next look-alike shows up.

  • Full dictionary entry for "connes" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "cotées" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #115,056 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "connes" and "cotées" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "congres vs connes". 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 #115,056 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