Corte
/ˈkɔːteɪ/
"corte" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Corte” is uncommon English (frequency #62,072 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,072
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A French commune in the Haute-Corse department, Corsica.
Corpus desk
Index EN-corte · Corte · English
Corte · rank #62,072 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,072
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH corporatist
Nearest frequency peer: corporatist (-2 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Long-tail ranks near “Corte”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Cordero
Cordero
37,934 corpus weight
- corpora
corpora
37,932 corpus weight
- corporatist
corporatist
37,931 corpus weight
- Corte
Corte
37,929 corpus weight
- Cranford
Cranford
37,927 corpus weight
- Crombie
Crombie
37,925 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Corte” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Corte |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /ˈkɔːteɪ/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #62,072 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Corte” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Corte is uncommon English at frequency #62,072 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /ˈkɔːteɪ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A French commune in the Haute-Corse department, Corsica.".
Corte has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is Corte, spelled C-O-R-T-E.
Definition
- 1A French commune in the Haute-Corse department, Corsica.
This word in other languages
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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