connut

\kɔ.ny\

/\kɔ.ny\/ verb

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The verdict

“connut” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #18,445. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#18,445
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords
7
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de connaître (ou connaitre).

Corpus desk

Index FR-connut · connut · French

connut · rank #18,445 · 7 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #18,445
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 7 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH connaisseur

Nearest frequency peer: connaisseur (-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 « connut »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « connut » 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).

connut vs coût
50% similar
connut vs cont
67% similar
connut vs cornu
67% similar

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

Key facts for connut
PropertyValue
Headwordconnut
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\kɔ.ny\
Letters6
Frequency rank#18,445
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « connut »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.connutse 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 « connaisseur » (#18,444), « consistent » (#18,446), « contrôlées » (#18,447). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « connut » est au #18,445. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 7 spelling variants around connut (IPA \kɔ.ny\), averb. Corpus frequency is #18,445 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de connaître (ou connaitre).".

Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for connut, with forms such as "cconnut", "cnonut", and "conntu". 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, "coût", "cont", "cornu", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is connut, spelled C-O-N-N-U-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de connaître (ou connaitre).

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. Ligny connut des sièges, toutes les famines et les pestes.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • cconnut
  • cnonut
  • conntu
  • connutt
  • conunt
  • conut
  • ocnnut

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of connut - 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.

cconnut1cnonut2conntu2connutt1conunt2conut1ocnnut2
Edit distance from "connut"

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 "connut"?
"connut" is spelled C-O-N-N-U-T. The IPA pronunciation is \kɔ.ny\.
What does "connut" mean?
As a verb, "connut" means: Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de connaître (ou connaitre).
What words are commonly confused with "connut"?
"connut" is commonly confused with "coût", "cont", "cornu". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "connut"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "connut" is \kɔ.ny\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "connut" come from?
"connut" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

comtés#18,441coudre#18,451dureté#18,464butler#18,422

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).

Comic7 variantscover7 variantschiot7 variantsearth7 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list