cognent
\kɔɲ\
The verdict
“cognent” is uncommon French (frequency #57,832 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,832
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent du verbe cogner.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cognent · cognent · French
cognent · rank #57,832 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,832
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cofondateurs
Nearest frequency peer: cofondateurs (-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 « cognent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- clodos
clodos
42,172 corpus weight
- CNED
CNED
42,171 corpus weight
- cofondateurs
cofondateurs
42,170 corpus weight
- cognent
cognent
42,169 corpus weight
- Collot
Collot
42,168 corpus weight
- Colombey
Colombey
42,167 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cognent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cognent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kɔɲ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #57,832 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cognent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cognent is uncommon French at frequency #57,832 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \kɔɲ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for cognent in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is cognent, spelled C-O-G-N-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent du verbe cogner.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du subjonctif présent du verbe cogner.
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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