Coran

/\kɔ.ʁɑ̃\/ name

Letters

5 characters

Frequency Rank

#6,943

in French word usage

Misspellings

7

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

Coran is aFrenchname. It means: Livre sacré de l’Islam regroupant les paroles divines qui, selon les musulmans, ont été communiquées au Prophète Mohammed par l’archange Gabriel durant vingt-trois années. Pronounced \kɔ.ʁɑ̃\. It ranks #6,943 in French word frequency. Often confused with cra and cran.

Key facts for Coran
PropertyValue
HeadwordCoran
LanguageFrench
Part of speechName
IPA\kɔ.ʁɑ̃\
Letters5
Frequency rank#6,943
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of Coran in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for Coran is 5 letters long, classified as aname, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɔ.ʁɑ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #6,943 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for Coran, with forms such as "ccoran", "coarn", and "corann". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "cra", "cran", "core", 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 Coran, spelled C-O-R-A-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Livre sacré de l’Islam regroupant les paroles divines qui, selon les musulmans, ont été communiquées au Prophète Mohammed par l’archange Gabriel durant vingt-trois années.
  2. 2
    Recueil de dogmes et de doctrines.

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ccoran,coarn,corann,corna,corran,croan,ocran

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Coran

Misspelling Variants of "Coran"

ccoran6coarn5corann6corna5corran6croan5ocran5
Misspelling Variants of "Coran"

Frequency rank: #6,943 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Coran"?
"Coran" is spelled C-O-R-A-N. The IPA pronunciation is \kɔ.ʁɑ̃\.
What does "Coran" mean?
As a name, "Coran" means: Livre sacré de l’Islam regroupant les paroles divines qui, selon les musulmans, ont été communiquées au Prophète Mohammed par l’archange Gabriel durant vingt-trois années.
What words are commonly confused with "Coran"?
"Coran" is commonly confused with "cra", "cran", "core". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "Coran"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Coran" is \kɔ.ʁɑ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Coran" come from?
"Coran" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.