corbillard
\kɔʁ.bi.jaʁ\
The verdict
“corbillard” is uncommon French (frequency #52,592 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,592
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Véhicule dans lequel sont transportés les morts au lieu de leur sépulture.
Corpus desk
Index FR-corbillard · corbillard · French
corbillard · rank #52,592 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,592
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH copiant
Nearest frequency peer: copiant (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangs de longue queue près de « corbillard »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cope
cope
47,411 corpus weight
- copiant
copiant
47,410 corpus weight
- corbillard
corbillard
47,409 corpus weight
- corticoïdes
corticoïdes
47,408 corpus weight
- cotations
cotations
47,407 corpus weight
- couplées
couplées
47,406 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « corbillard » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | corbillard |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔʁ.bi.jaʁ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #52,592 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « corbillard » en français
Rare enough to double-check
corbillard is uncommon French at frequency #52,592 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɔʁ.bi.jaʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Véhicule dans lequel sont transportés les morts au lieu de leur sépulture.".
corbillard has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
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. The correct French form is corbillard, spelled C-O-R-B-I-L-L-A-R-D.
Definition
- 1Véhicule dans lequel sont transportés les morts au lieu de leur sépulture.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how corbillard appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Lentement, derrière le corbillard des pauvres, qu’avait orgueilleusement revendiqué le poète millionnaire, l’immense défilé se mit en route.
Cet avis mortuaire, avec son laconisme, me parut d’une indicible tristesse et m’imposa la vision d’un de ces mornes corbillards qui, parfois, traversent Paris à vive allure sans personne derrière eux.
Synonyms
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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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