conne

\kɔn\

/\kɔn\/ noun

The verdict

“conne” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #11,195. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#11,195
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords
5
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Personne stupide, désagréable ou mauvaise à force de bêtise.

Corpus desk

Index FR-conne · conne · French

conne · rank #11,195 · 5 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #11,195
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 5 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH concernée

Nearest frequency peer: concernée (-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 « conne »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « conne » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

conne vs côte
40% similar
conne vs cons
60% similar
conne vs core
60% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for conne
PropertyValue
Headwordconne
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\kɔn\
Letters5
Frequency rank#11,195
Misspellings tracked5
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « conne »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.connese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « concernée » (#11,194), « consciente » (#11,196), « considérables » (#11,197). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « conne » est au #11,195. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 5 spelling variants around conne (IPA \kɔn\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #11,195 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Personne stupide, désagréable ou mauvaise à force de bêtise.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for conne, with forms such as "cconne", "cnone", and "cone". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "côte", "cons", "core", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is conne, spelled C-O-N-N-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Personne stupide, désagréable ou mauvaise à force de bêtise.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how conne appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Ce qui me rend malade ce n'est pas que tu puises te taper cette guenon, mais qu’un looser de ton espèce puisse ainsi me prendre pour une conne en draguant sans retenue n'importe quoi.
  2. La souris gris’ se fâche et subito presto, Entre la rue Didot et la rue de Vanves, La conne, la méchante, Va d’mander ma tête à ses p’tits poteaux, Entre la rue de Vanv’s et la rue Didot.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • cconne
  • cnone
  • cone
  • conen
  • ocnne

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of conne - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

cconne1cnone2cone1conen2ocnne2
Edit distance from "conne"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "conne"?
"conne" is spelled C-O-N-N-E. The IPA pronunciation is \kɔn\.
What does "conne" mean?
As a noun, "conne" means: Personne stupide, désagréable ou mauvaise à force de bêtise.
What words are commonly confused with "conne"?
"conne" is commonly confused with "côte", "cons", "core". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "conne"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "conne" is \kɔn\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "conne" come from?
"conne" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "conne", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list