cognassier
\kɔ.ɲa.sje\
The verdict
“cognassier” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom que l’on donne à deux genres d'arbres de la famille des Rosacées (Rosaceae), le genre Cydonia qui porte des coings ou des cognasses que l'on consomme et le genre Chaenomeles cultivé comme arbus...
Corpus desk
Index FR-cognassier · cognassier · French
cognassier · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "C" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cognassier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ.ɲa.sje\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cognassier » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cognassier is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɔ.ɲa.sje\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom que l’on donne à deux genres d'arbres de la famille des Rosacées (Rosaceae), le genre Cydonia qui porte des coings ou des cognasses que l'on consomme et le genre Chaenomeles cultivé comme arbus...".
cognassier has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is cognassier, spelled C-O-G-N-A-S-S-I-E-R.
Definition
- 1Nom que l’on donne à deux genres d'arbres de la famille des Rosacées (Rosaceae), le genre Cydonia qui porte des coings ou des cognasses que l'on consomme et le genre Chaenomeles cultivé comme arbuste d’ornement, ses fruits sont durs et astringents.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cognassier appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Au printemps les cognassiers fleurissent, arrosés par des filets d’eau que versent les rivières dans le jardin sacré des Vierges.
Le fruit du cognassier est très âpre, j’en ai obtenu de très mangeables au moyen de l’incision annulaire.
Synonyms
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.