cordeau
\kɔʁ.do\
The verdict
“cordeau” is an uncommon French word, ranked #53,231 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #53,231
- frequency rank, French
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Petite corde tendue par ses extrémités afin de matérialiser une ligne droite.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cordeau |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔʁ.do\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #53,231 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “cordeau” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for cordeau is 7 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɔʁ.do\. Corpus data places it at rank #53,231 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
cordeau doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 cordeau, spelled C-O-R-D-E-A-U.
Definition
- 1Petite corde tendue par ses extrémités afin de matérialiser une ligne droite.
- 2Petite corde dont se servent les maçons, les jardiniers, les charpentiers pour tracer des lignes droites, pour aligner.
- 3, expression désignant une chose impeccable.
- 4Ligne de fond pour la pêche fluviale, par exemple pour la pêche aux anguilles.
- 5Mèche utilisée avec des explosifs ou comme explosif.
- 6Rêne pour diriger un cheval.
This word in other languages
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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Using “cordeau”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is C-O-R-D-E-A-U - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \kɔʁ.do\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.