cognait
\kɔ.ɲɛ\
The verdict
“cognait” is uncommon French (frequency #91,541 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,541
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe cogner.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cognait · cognait · French
cognait · rank #91,541 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,541
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cocontractant
Nearest frequency peer: cocontractant (-2 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 « cognait »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- closet
closet
8,465 corpus weight
- cocontracta…
cocontractant
8,462 corpus weight
- cognait
cognait
8,460 corpus weight
- collisionne…
collisionneur
8,458 corpus weight
- commuter
commuter
8,457 corpus weight
- Compans
Compans
8,456 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cognait » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cognait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kɔ.ɲɛ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #91,541 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cognait » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cognait is uncommon French at frequency #91,541 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \kɔ.ɲɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe cogner.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for cognait, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is cognait, spelled C-O-G-N-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe cogner.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how cognait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Elle se gratta le cou en observant un papillon de nuit qui se cognait contre l’abat-jour de la lampe.
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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