code
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#818
in French word usage
Misspellings
4
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
code is aFrenchnoun. It means: Ensemble de lois ou d’ordonnances relatives à une matière spéciale ou réunies par le législateur. Pronounced \kɔd\. It ranks #818 in French word frequency. Often confused with con and cou.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | code |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔd\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #818 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for code is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɔd\. Corpus data places it at rank #818 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 11 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 4 documented wrong-spelling variants for code, with forms such as "ccode", "cdoe", and "codde". 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, "con", "cou", "col", 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 code, spelled C-O-D-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Ensemble de lois ou d’ordonnances relatives à une matière spéciale ou réunies par le législateur.
- 2Publication constituant une codification privée.
- 3Droit, lois.
- 4Feu de croisement, dispositif d'éclairage d'un véhicule automobile, moins éblouissant que les phares, prévu par le code de la route et utilisé lorsque ce véhicule en croise un autre.
- 5L’épreuve théorique générale du permis de conduire (ETG).
- 6Ensemble de coutumes, de préceptes ou de règles écrites ou non, qu'il est convenu de respecter dans un domaine, dans un milieu donné.
- 7Système de symboles servant à échanger des informations.
- 8Langage secret.
- 9Ensemble de règles ou contraintes qui assurent le fonctionnement du langage.
- 10Langage de programmation informatique, programme informatique.
- 11Système de symboles permettant de représenter une information dans un domaine technique.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccode,cdoe,codde,coed
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for code
Misspelling Variants of "code"
Frequency rank: #818 in French
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