cordée
\kɔʁ.de\
The verdict
“cordée” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #40,693. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #40,693
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ce qui peut être entouré d'une corde.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cordee · cordée · French
cordée · rank #40,693 · 9 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #40,693
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cordial
Nearest frequency peer: cordial (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « cordée »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- contaminées
contaminées
59,311 corpus weight
- contrevient
contrevient
59,310 corpus weight
- cordial
cordial
59,309 corpus weight
- cordée
cordée
59,308 corpus weight
- Costco
Costco
59,306 corpus weight
- coul
coul
59,305 corpus weight
What this shows « cordée » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cordée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔʁ.de\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #40,693 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « cordée »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around cordée (IPA \kɔʁ.de\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #40,693 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for cordée, with forms such as "ccordée", "codrée", and "corddée". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "crée", "core", "corse", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is cordée, spelled C-O-R-D-É-E.
Definition
- 1Ce qui peut être entouré d'une corde.
- 2Suite de personnes reliées par une corde.
- 3Durée du trajet d’une cage d’ascenseur dans une mine.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cordée appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Premier de cordée.
[…] il a suffi d’un mince lien de chanvre. La cordée pense, la cordée sent, et les montagnards en disent communément qu’elle est bonne ou mauvaise. C’est un embryon parfait de société plus importante, et elle obéit aux mêmes lois.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccordée
- codrée
- corddée
- cordee
- cordeé
- corrdée
- coréde
- crodée
- ocrdée
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cordée - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "cordée", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).