connais
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#653
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
17
similar word pairs
connais is aFrenchverb. It means: Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe connaître. Pronounced \kɔ.nɛ\. It ranks #653 in French word frequency. Often confused with connus and connie.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | connais |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kɔ.nɛ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #653 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 17 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for connais is 7 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɔ.nɛ\. Corpus data places it at rank #653 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for connais, with forms such as "cconnais", "cnonais", and "conais". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 17 confusable-pair relationships, "connus", "connie", "connes", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 connais, spelled C-O-N-N-A-I-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe connaître.
- 2Deuxième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe connaître.
- 3Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif du verbe connaître.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: cconnais,cnonais,conais,conanis,connaiss,connasi,connias,ocnnais
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for connais
Misspelling Variants of "connais"
Frequency rank: #653 in French
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Nearby French words
Other entries that begin with the letter C in our French index: