cone
\kəʊn\
The verdict
“cone” is uncommon French (frequency #53,222 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,222
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Cône.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cone · cone · French
cone · rank #53,222 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,222
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Concacaf
Nearest frequency peer: Concacaf (-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.
Long-tail ranks near “cone”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- complaisante
complaisante
46,782 corpus weight
- comportemen…
comportemental
46,781 corpus weight
- Concacaf
Concacaf
46,780 corpus weight
- cone
cone
46,779 corpus weight
- confrontent
confrontent
46,778 corpus weight
- conserveront
conserveront
46,776 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “cone” sits against similarly uncommon French ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cone |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kəʊn\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #53,222 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Où “cone” se place dans la fréquence du français
Rare enough to double-check
cone is uncommon French at frequency #53,222 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kəʊn\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for cone, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. 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. The correct French form is cone, spelled C-O-N-E.
Definition
- 1Cône.
- 2Surface conique.
- 3Cornet (cornet de glace).
- 4Pomme de pin.
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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