conique
\kɔ.nik\
The verdict
“conique” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #27,017. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #27,017
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - En forme de cône.
Corpus desk
Index FR-conique · conique · French
conique · rank #27,017 · 9 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #27,017
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH conseillent
Nearest frequency peer: conseillent (+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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « conique »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- compétiteurs
compétiteurs
72,988 corpus weight
- conceptuel
conceptuel
72,987 corpus weight
- conique
conique
72,984 corpus weight
- conseillent
conseillent
72,983 corpus weight
- conservatri…
conservatrices
72,982 corpus weight
- constituants
constituants
72,981 corpus weight
What this shows « conique » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | conique |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kɔ.nik\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #27,017 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « conique »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around conique (IPA \kɔ.nik\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #27,017 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for conique, with forms such as "cconique", "cnoique", and "coinque". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "coque", "connue", "crique", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is conique, spelled C-O-N-I-Q-U-E.
Definition
- 1En forme de cône.
- 2Qui appartient au cône.
- 3Se dit d’un champignon qui a la forme d’un cône.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how conique appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Nous nous dirigeons vers l’interstice qui sépare les deux montagnes coniques vaguement entrevues hier.
Section conique, courbe qui résulte d'une section du cône à base circulaire par un plan, à savoir : le cercle, l’ellipse, l’hyperbole et la parabole.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cconique
- cnoique
- coinque
- coniqeu
- coniqque
- coniuqe
- connique
- conqiue
- ocnique
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of conique - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).