consul
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#9,456
in French word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
19
similar word pairs
consul is aFrenchnoun. It means: Magistrat qui avait la principale autorité dans la république romaine. Pronounced \kɔ̃.syl\. It ranks #9,456 in French word frequency. Often confused with coul and cousu.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | consul |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.syl\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #9,456 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 19 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for consul is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɔ̃.syl\. Corpus data places it at rank #9,456 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for consul, with forms such as "cconsul", "cnosul", and "connsul". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 19 confusable-pair relationships, "coul", "cousu", "cousue", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is consul, spelled C-O-N-S-U-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Magistrat qui avait la principale autorité dans la république romaine.
- 2Juge prudhomme des marchands et des négociants, chargé de régler les affaires urgentes en matière de commerce, à Paris et dans quelques autres villes.
- 3Magistrat suprême auquel la constitution de l’an VIII avait confié le gouvernement de la République.
- 4Agent chargé par un gouvernement de protéger les intérêts privés et commerciaux des nationaux résidant à l’étranger, d’exercer à leur égard diverses attributions de l’État et, dans certains pays, une juridiction, etc.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: cconsul,cnosul,connsul,conslu,conssul,consull,conusl,cosnul,ocnsul
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for consul
Misspelling Variants of "consul"
Frequency rank: #9,456 in French
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