cognac
\kɔ.ɲak\
The verdict
“cognac” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #13,543. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #13,543
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Eau-de-vie qui a son centre de production dans la région de Cognac, en France.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cognac · cognac · French
cognac · rank #13,543 · 9 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #13,543
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH classic
Nearest frequency peer: classic (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « cognac »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- chèvres
chèvres
86,461 corpus weight
- citées
citées
86,460 corpus weight
- classic
classic
86,459 corpus weight
- cognac
cognac
86,458 corpus weight
- cohérente
cohérente
86,457 corpus weight
- collectivem…
collectivement
86,456 corpus weight
What this shows « cognac » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cognac |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ.ɲak\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #13,543 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « cognac »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around cognac (IPA \kɔ.ɲak\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #13,543 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Eau-de-vie qui a son centre de production dans la région de Cognac, en France.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for cognac, with forms such as "ccognac", "cgonac", and "coganc". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "Conan", "cogné", "couac", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is cognac, spelled C-O-G-N-A-C.
Definition
- 1Eau-de-vie qui a son centre de production dans la région de Cognac, en France.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cognac appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Alors il chercha l’oubli tour à tour dans le cidre normand, le poiré manceau, l’hydromel gaulois, le cognac français, le genièvre hollandais, le gin anglais, le wiskey écossais, le kirsch germain.
Oui… reprit Jacques, un duel… au cognac… Tu prétends qu’il y a autant de danger à se mettre devant une bouteille d’eau-de-vie que devant la gueule d’un pistolet… Prenons chacun une bouteille pleine, l’on verra qui de nous deux reculera.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccognac
- cgonac
- coganc
- coggnac
- cognacc
- cognca
- cognnac
- congac
- ocgnac
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cognac - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).