cobras
\kɔ.bʁa\
The verdict
“cobras” is uncommon French (frequency #73,021 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,021
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de cobra.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cobras · cobras · French
cobras · rank #73,021 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,021
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH CNCDH
Nearest frequency peer: CNCDH (-1 rank slots)
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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « cobras »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cluzel
cluzel
26,983 corpus weight
- clôturera
clôturera
26,982 corpus weight
- CNCDH
CNCDH
26,981 corpus weight
- cobras
cobras
26,980 corpus weight
- cocooning
cocooning
26,979 corpus weight
- coding
coding
26,978 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cobras » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cobras |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ.bʁa\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #73,021 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cobras » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cobras is uncommon French at frequency #73,021 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɔ.bʁa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de cobra.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for cobras, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is cobras, spelled C-O-B-R-A-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de cobra.
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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