cordeau
\kɔʁ.do\
The verdict
“cordeau” is uncommon French (frequency #53,231 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,231
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Petite corde tendue par ses extrémités afin de matérialiser une ligne droite.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cordeau · cordeau · French
cordeau · rank #53,231 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,231
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Copacabana
Nearest frequency peer: Copacabana (-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 « cordeau »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- contrefaits
contrefaits
46,773 corpus weight
- contribuère…
contribuèrent
46,772 corpus weight
- Copacabana
Copacabana
46,771 corpus weight
- cordeau
cordeau
46,770 corpus weight
- corre
corre
46,769 corpus weight
- Coudray
Coudray
46,768 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cordeau » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| 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) |
Longue queue: rang de « cordeau » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cordeau is uncommon French at frequency #53,231 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɔʁ.do\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 6 senses are on record.
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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cordeau appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Cordeau dont le jardinier se sert pour semer et planter dans le même alignement.
Rendez-moi donc mon piquet et mon cordeau à repiquages ! J’en ai besoin pour aligner les laitues.
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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