cor
Letters
3 characters
Frequency Rank
#14,000
in French word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
cor is aFrenchnoun. It means: (toujours employé au pluriel) Andouiller. Pronounced \kɔʁ\. Often confused with CV and Ct.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cor |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔʁ\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #14,000 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for cor is 3 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɔʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #14,000 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for cor in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "CV", "Ct", "CP", 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 cor, spelled C-O-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1(toujours employé au pluriel) Andouiller.
- 2(toujours employé au pluriel) Andouiller.
- 3Corne qui servait d’appel aux pâtres, soldats, chasseurs… ou instrument de même forme mais fabriqué dans une autre matière.
- 4Nom générique de différents instruments à vent.
- 5Nom générique de différents instruments à vent.
- 6Nom générique de différents instruments à vent.
- 7Nom générique de différents instruments à vent.
- 8Nom générique de différents instruments à vent.
- 9Meuble représentant l’instrument de musique du même nom dans les armoiries. Il est généralement représenté sous la forme d'une corne munie de deux viroles reliées par une sangle. Quand la sangle est d'un autre émail, on le dit lié. Quand ce sont les viroles, il est virolé. Quand c’est l’embouchure, il est dit enguiché ou embouché. À rapprocher de cor de chasse, cornet, grêlier, huchet, olifant et trompe.
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Frequency rank: #14,000 in French
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