connu
\kɔ.ny\
The verdict
“connu” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #718. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #718
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Dont on a connaissance.
Corpus desk
Index FR-connu · connu · French
connu · rank #718 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #718
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH chercher
Nearest frequency peer: chercher (-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 « connu »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- association
association
99,286 corpus weight
- carte
carte
99,285 corpus weight
- chercher
chercher
99,284 corpus weight
- connu
connu
99,283 corpus weight
- devenir
devenir
99,281 corpus weight
- euros
euros
99,280 corpus weight
What this shows « connu » 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 | connu |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kɔ.ny\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #718 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « connu »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around connu (IPA \kɔ.ny\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #718 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Dont on a connaissance.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for connu, with forms such as "cconnu", "cnonu", and "conu". 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, "cou", "cons", "corn", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented 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 connu, spelled C-O-N-N-U.
Definition
- 1Dont on a connaissance.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how connu appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La décoration également, raffinée et l’atmosphère y est conviviale autour de cocktails connus et reconnus comme un dry Martini, un daïquiri, une margarita, un bloody-mary, un cuba-libre, une piña-colada…, mais aussi des cocktails sans alcool, un apéritif classique avec une très intéressante carte de whiskies et de champagnes.
Le « tchouktchouk », ça c’est connu à l’époque, fait référence de manière peu sympathique et même raciste à un marchand ambulant originaire d’Afrique du Nord.
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cconnu
- cnonu
- conu
- conun
- ocnnu
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of connu - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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