concombre cornu
\kɔ̃.kɔ̃bʁ kɔʁ.ny\
The verdict
“concombre cornu” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Nom usuel d'une plante et de son fruit, de la famille des Cucurbitaceae, Cucumis metuliferus dont le fruit est consommé cru.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | concombre cornu |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.kɔ̃bʁ kɔʁ.ny\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “concombre cornu” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for concombre cornu is 15 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɔ̃.kɔ̃bʁ kɔʁ.ny\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Nom usuel d'une plante et de son fruit, de la famille des Cucurbitaceae, Cucumis metuliferus dont le fruit est consommé cru.".
No misspelling variants are generated for concombre cornu in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is concombre cornu, spelled C-O-N-C-O-M-B-R-E- -C-O-R-N-U, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Nom usuel d'une plante et de son fruit, de la famille des Cucurbitaceae, Cucumis metuliferus dont le fruit est consommé cru.
Synonyms
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- The one correct French spelling is C-O-N-C-O-M-B-R-E- -C-O-R-N-U - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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