cordiales
\kɔʁ.djal\
The verdict
“cordiales” is uncommon French (frequency #50,138 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,138
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin pluriel de cordial.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cordiales · cordiales · French
cordiales · rank #50,138 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,138
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH corrigez
Nearest frequency peer: corrigez (+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 « cordiales »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- convainquant
convainquant
49,866 corpus weight
- copper
copper
49,865 corpus weight
- cordiales
cordiales
49,863 corpus weight
- corrigez
corrigez
49,862 corpus weight
- Coucy
Coucy
49,861 corpus weight
- coula
coula
49,860 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cordiales » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cordiales |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kɔʁ.djal\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #50,138 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cordiales » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cordiales is uncommon French at frequency #50,138 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \kɔʁ.djal\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin pluriel de cordial.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for cordiales, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is cordiales, spelled C-O-R-D-I-A-L-E-S.
Definition
- 1Féminin pluriel de cordial.
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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