corbeau
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#16,329
in French word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
10
similar word pairs
corbeau is aFrenchnoun. It means: Nom vernaculaire du grand corbeau (Corvus corax), gros oiseau passereau carnassier à plumage noir et au bec fort et noir. Pronounced \kɔʁ.bo\. Often confused with coteau and correa.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | corbeau |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔʁ.bo\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #16,329 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for corbeau is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɔʁ.bo\. Corpus data places it at rank #16,329 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 12 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 corbeau, with forms such as "ccorbeau", "cobreau", and "corbaeu". 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 10 confusable-pair relationships, "coteau", "correa", "couteau", 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 corbeau, spelled C-O-R-B-E-A-U, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Nom vernaculaire du grand corbeau (Corvus corax), gros oiseau passereau carnassier à plumage noir et au bec fort et noir.
- 2Oiseau d’allure proche du grand corbeau (1) (freux, corneille, choucas, etc.) pouvant appartenir aux genres Corvus et Pyrrhocorax.
- 3En temps d’épidémie, personne chargée par les autorités de sortir de la ville les cadavres des pestiférés afin de les réunir dans des fosses.
- 4Nom donné quelquefois aux porteurs des morts.
- 5Nom donné quelquefois aux prêtres à cause de leurs vêtements noirs.
- 6Auteur de lettres ou de coups de téléphone anonymes.
- 7Pierre, pièce de bois ou de métal, façonnée en console, moindre en hauteur qu’en saillie, encastrée dans la maçonnerie et placée en saillie du nu d’un mur, servant à supporter une charge (poutre, corniche, balcon, etc.).
- 8Espèce de grappin d’abordage et de pont volant, utilisé par les Romains.
- 9Cépage donnant du raisin rouge nommé aussi montmélian en Savoie. Ce cépage possède une quarantaine de synonymes.
- 10Meuble représentant l’animal du même nom dans les armoiries. Il est généralement représenté de profil, debout sur ses pattes et de sable. À rapprocher de corneille.
- 11Jeu traditionnel de village.
- 12Premier grade des initiés du culte de Mithra.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccorbeau,cobreau,corbaeu,corbbeau,corbeua,corebau,corrbeau,crobeau,ocrbeau
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for corbeau
Misspelling Variants of "corbeau"
Frequency rank: #16,329 in French
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