CoopervscoopèreConfusable pair

Quick tell: Cooper is a name, coopère is a verb, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“Cooper” is a name and “coopère” is a verb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#8,831
“Cooper” frequency rank
#37,748
“coopère” frequency rank
46579
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature Cooper coopère
Definition Nom de famille. Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de coopérer.

Letter map: Cooper vs coopère

Shared letters muted; letters that set Cooper and coopère apart highlighted. Shared run: 5. Cooper runs 6 letters (CVVCVC) against coopère's 7 (CVVCVCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

6 ch
Cooper
7 ch
coopère

Role in the sentence - Cooper and coopère

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: Cooper is aname and coopèreaverb. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 46579, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

Cooper is recorded at frequency rank #8,831, classified as aname. coopère is at rank #37,748, tagged as averb, pronounced \kɔ.ɔ.pɛʁ\.

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 46579, this pair ranks #193,810 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of Cooper vs coopère

Shared letters: ceopr. Private to "Cooper": -. Private to "coopère": è.

"Cooper" · 6 letters · shape CVVCVC  ·  "coopère" · 7 letters · shape CVVCVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • Cooper ← ccooper · cooepr · cooperr · coopper · coopre · coper · copoer · ocoper

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "Cooper" for "coopère" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "Cooper" is a name and "coopère" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "Cooper" vs "coopère" - which ranks higher?
"Cooper" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #8,831 in our French list, against #37,748 for "coopère". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

You've compared "Cooper" and "coopère". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "Cooper" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "coopère" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #193,810 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "Cooper" and "coopère" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "coopère vs coopèrent". 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 #193,810 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