Comnène
The verdict
“Comnène” is uncommon French (frequency #68,149 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,149
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille grec porté par une dynastie impériale byzantine.
Corpus desk
Index FR-comnene · Comnène · French
Comnène · rank #68,149 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,149
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH colombine
Nearest frequency peer: colombine (-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 « Comnène »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- codétenu
codétenu
31,855 corpus weight
- cohabite
cohabite
31,854 corpus weight
- colombine
colombine
31,853 corpus weight
- Comnène
Comnène
31,852 corpus weight
- complétez
complétez
31,851 corpus weight
- comptages
comptages
31,850 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Comnène » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Comnène |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #68,149 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Comnène » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Comnène is uncommon French at frequency #68,149 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille grec porté par une dynastie impériale byzantine.".
Comnène doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is Comnène, spelled C-O-M-N-È-N-E.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille grec porté par une dynastie impériale byzantine.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Comnène appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Anne Comnène.
Baudouin III, dont toute l'activité durant son séjour à Missis révèle la valeur, rendit sur-le-champ à Manuel Comnène, ainsi d'ailleurs qu'aux Arméniens, un signalé service, celui de les reconcilier entre eux.
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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