cogneur
\kɔ.ɲœʁ\
The verdict
“cogneur” is uncommon French (frequency #59,897 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,897
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celui qui a l’habitude de cogner.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cogneur · cogneur · French
cogneur · rank #59,897 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,897
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cocus
Nearest frequency peer: cocus (-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 « cogneur »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cocagne
cocagne
40,106 corpus weight
- cocus
cocus
40,105 corpus weight
- cogneur
cogneur
40,104 corpus weight
- cogénération
cogénération
40,103 corpus weight
- colour
colour
40,102 corpus weight
- colporter
colporter
40,101 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cogneur » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cogneur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ.ɲœʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #59,897 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cogneur » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cogneur is uncommon French at frequency #59,897 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɔ.ɲœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Celui qui a l’habitude de cogner.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for cogneur in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is cogneur, spelled C-O-G-N-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Celui qui a l’habitude de cogner.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how cogneur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mon père, je l’ai pas connu, elle m’en parle jamais, à force de cogiter et d’interroger ce silence, je finis par penser qu’il était un cogneur lui aussi.
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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