cobra
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#22,800
in French word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
cobra is aFrenchnoun. It means: Nom vernaculaire ambigu donné à cinq genres de serpents venimeux d’Afrique et d’Asie, de la famille des élapidés, et qui se distinguent par leur habitude de se dresser verticalement en position de ... Pronounced \kɔ.bʁa\. Often confused with cor and cra.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cobra |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ.bʁa\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #22,800 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for cobra is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɔ.bʁa\. Corpus data places it at rank #22,800 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for cobra, with forms such as "cbora", "ccobra", and "cobar". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "cor", "cra", "cour", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is cobra, spelled C-O-B-R-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Nom vernaculaire ambigu donné à cinq genres de serpents venimeux d’Afrique et d’Asie, de la famille des élapidés, et qui se distinguent par leur habitude de se dresser verticalement en position de combat et d’exhiber une coiffe caractéristique (genres: Hemachatus, Laticauda, Naja, Ophiophagus, et Pseudohaje).
- 2Employé seul et sans mention du nom scientifique, ce terme désigne généralement le genre Naja, et dans la majorité des cas, le cobra indien, appelé vulgairement « serpent à lunettes » (Naja naja), une espèce de serpent extrêmement venimeux habitant les six pays du croissant formé entre le Pakistan et le Bhoutan.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: cbora,ccobra,cobar,cobbra,cobrra,corba,ocbra
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for cobra
Misspelling Variants of "cobra"
Frequency rank: #22,800 in French
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