cons
\kɔ̃\
The verdict
“cons” is a regularly-used French word, ranked #3,243 in French word frequency and used as an adjective.
- #3,243
- frequency rank, French
- 4
- letters
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de con.
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 | cons |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #3,243 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “cons” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for cons is 4 letters long, classified as an adjective, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #3,243 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Masculin pluriel de con.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for cons, with forms such as "ccons", "cnos", and "conns". 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, "Cs", "cou", "coq", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 cons, spelled C-O-N-S.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de con.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccons,cnos,conns,conss,cosn,ocns
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cons - 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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Using “cons”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is C-O-N-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \kɔ̃\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “Cs” - see the side-by-side comparison. cons vs Cs
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.