consœur
\kɔ̃.sœʁ\
The verdict
“consœur” is uncommon French (frequency #62,164 among 257,141 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,164
- frequency rank, French
- 257,141
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Celle qui fait partie d’une consœurie, d’une compagnie, d’une société religieuse, littéraire ou artistique, particulièrement quand elle a été admise par les autres membres à en faire partie.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | consœur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.sœʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #62,164 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “consœur” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
consœur is uncommon French at frequency #62,164 among 257,141 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɔ̃.sœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
consœur has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 consœur, spelled C-O-N-S-Œ-U-R.
Definition
- 1Celle qui fait partie d’une consœurie, d’une compagnie, d’une société religieuse, littéraire ou artistique, particulièrement quand elle a été admise par les autres membres à en faire partie.
- 2Celle qui exerce la même profession libérale qu’un autre membre de ce métier.
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 “consœur”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is C-O-N-S-Œ-U-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \kɔ̃.sœʁ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.