corda
\kɔʁ.da\
The verdict
“corda” is uncommon French (frequency #62,888 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,888
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de corder.
Corpus desk
Index FR-corda · corda · French
corda · rank #62,888 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,888
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH conventionné
Nearest frequency peer: conventionné (-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 « corda »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- consult
consult
37,117 corpus weight
- conventionné
conventionné
37,114 corpus weight
- corda
corda
37,113 corpus weight
- corinthien
corinthien
37,112 corpus weight
- Corrado
Corrado
37,111 corpus weight
- Corées
Corées
37,109 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « corda » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | corda |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kɔʁ.da\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #62,888 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « corda » en français
Rare enough to double-check
corda is uncommon French at frequency #62,888 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \kɔʁ.da\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de corder.".
Zero misspellings are on record for corda in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is corda, spelled C-O-R-D-A.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de corder.
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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