cognée
\kɔ.ɲe\
The verdict
“cognée” is uncommon French (frequency #51,966 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,966
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Instrument tranchant fait en forme de hache et qui sert à couper du gros bois.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cognee · cognée · French
cognée · rank #51,966 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,966
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH codée
Nearest frequency peer: codée (-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 « cognée »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- clipper
clipper
48,038 corpus weight
- cloués
cloués
48,037 corpus weight
- codée
codée
48,036 corpus weight
- cognée
cognée
48,035 corpus weight
- coliques
coliques
48,034 corpus weight
- colmater
colmater
48,033 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cognée » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cognée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ.ɲe\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #51,966 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cognée » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cognée is uncommon French at frequency #51,966 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɔ.ɲe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for cognée in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is cognée, spelled C-O-G-N-É-E.
Definition
- 1Instrument tranchant fait en forme de hache et qui sert à couper du gros bois.
- 2Meuble représentant l’outil du même nom dans les armoiries. Elle se blasonne comme la hache.
- 3Bruit produit par quelque chose qui cogne.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cognée appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…] ; on entendait gronder des forges, et les coups de la cognée faisaient, pour la dernière fois, mugir des échos expirant eux-mêmes avec les arbres qui leur servaient d’asile.
Le géant se courbe et chancelle comme un chêne sous la cognée du bûcheron…
This word in other languages
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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