cotées vs coudées, What's the Difference?

Which to use

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

#23,817
“cotées” frequency rank: #41,198
“coudées” frequency rank: 65015
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	cotées	coudées
Definition	Féminin pluriel de coté.	Féminin pluriel de coudé.

Where the eye mixes cotées and coudées

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 5 letters in sequence. cotées runs 6 letters (CVCVVC) against coudées's 7 (CVVCVVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

6 ch

cotées

7 ch

coudées

Visual trap between cotées and coudées

A purely visual mix-up. cotées (\kɔ.te\) and coudées (\ku.de\) 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 65015, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

cotées is recorded at frequency rank #23,817, classified as anadj, pronounced \kɔ.te\. coudées is at rank #41,198, tagged as anadj, pronounced \ku.de\.

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 65015, this pair ranks #74,281 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of cotées vs coudées

Shared letters: ceosé. Private to "cotées": t. Private to "coudées": du.

"cotées" · 6 letters · shape CVCVVC · "coudées" · 7 letters · shape CVVCVVC

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "cotées" for "coudées" ever safe?

No. They are said differently (\kɔ.te\ versus \ku.de\) and carry different meanings; reading the sentence aloud is usually enough to catch the wrong one.

In ordinary French text, does "cotées" or "coudées" show up more?

"cotées" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #23,817 in our French list, against #41,198 for "coudées". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

Eye-level mix-up between "cotées" and "coudées" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.

Full dictionary entry for "cotées" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
Full dictionary entry for "coudées" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
This pair ranks #74,281 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"cotées" and "coudées" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "coudées vs courges". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #74,281 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.