cons
\kɔ̃\
The verdict
“cons” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #3,243. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #3,243
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de con.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cons · cons · French
cons · rank #3,243 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #3,243
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH contribution
Nearest frequency peer: contribution (+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 « cons »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- chemins
chemins
96,761 corpus weight
- chronique
chronique
96,760 corpus weight
- cons
cons
96,758 corpus weight
- contribution
contribution
96,757 corpus weight
- copie
copie
96,756 corpus weight
- cultures
cultures
96,755 corpus weight
What this shows « cons » 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 | 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) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « cons »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around cons (IPA \kɔ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #3,243 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).