connais
\kɔ.nɛ\
The verdict
“connais” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #653. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #653
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 17
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe connaître.
Corpus desk
Index FR-connais · connais · French
connais · rank #653 · 8 variants · 17 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #653
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 17 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH vieux
Nearest frequency peer: vieux (-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 « connais »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- production
production
99,351 corpus weight
- semaines
semaines
99,350 corpus weight
- vieux
vieux
99,349 corpus weight
- connais
connais
99,348 corpus weight
- facile
facile
99,347 corpus weight
- image
image
99,346 corpus weight
What this shows « connais » 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 | 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) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « connais »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around connais (IPA \kɔ.nɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #653 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for connais, with forms such as "cconnais", "cnonais", and "conais". 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 17 confusable-pair relationships, "connus", "connie", "connes", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is connais, spelled C-O-N-N-A-I-S.
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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how connais appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Connais pas !... Ce mot, passé de l’argot des gamins de Paris dans le vocabulaire de la lorette, est, à l’aide des yeux et de la physionomie de ces femmes, tout un poëme sur leurs lèvres.
J’essaie de déchiffrer son écriture en pattes de mouches pendant que l’autobus me mène dans un coin de la ville que je ne connais pas encore.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cconnais
- cnonais
- conais
- conanis
- connaiss
- connasi
- connias
- ocnnais
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of connais - 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 (8 here; floor ≥5).