cognes
\kɔɲ\
The verdict
“cognes” is uncommon French (frequency #76,440 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,440
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de cogne.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cognes · cognes · French
cognes · rank #76,440 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,440
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH coil
Nearest frequency peer: coil (+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 « cognes »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- clébard
clébard
23,565 corpus weight
- codant
codant
23,563 corpus weight
- cognes
cognes
23,561 corpus weight
- coil
coil
23,560 corpus weight
- colomba
colomba
23,559 corpus weight
- colorent
colorent
23,558 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cognes » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cognes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔɲ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #76,440 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cognes » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cognes is uncommon French at frequency #76,440 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɔɲ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de cogne.".
Zero misspellings are on record for cognes in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is cognes, spelled C-O-G-N-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de cogne.
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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