cordialité
\kɔʁ.dja.li.te\
The verdict
“cordialité” is uncommon French (frequency #68,946 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,946
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Affection dont les manifestations attestent la sincérité, la vivacité.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cordialite · cordialité · French
cordialité · rank #68,946 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,946
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH copuler
Nearest frequency peer: copuler (-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 « cordialité »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- coordinateu…
coordinateurs
31,058 corpus weight
- copuler
copuler
31,056 corpus weight
- cordialité
cordialité
31,055 corpus weight
- corroborent
corroborent
31,054 corpus weight
- cortina
cortina
31,053 corpus weight
- Cosimo
Cosimo
31,052 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cordialité » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cordialité |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔʁ.dja.li.te\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #68,946 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cordialité » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cordialité is uncommon French at frequency #68,946 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɔʁ.dja.li.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Affection dont les manifestations attestent la sincérité, la vivacité.".
No misspelling variants are generated for cordialité in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 cordialité, spelled C-O-R-D-I-A-L-I-T-É.
Definition
- 1Affection dont les manifestations attestent la sincérité, la vivacité.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cordialité appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La plus franche cordialité régnait entre nous. Je passai là d’excellentes heures.
Le bruit des voix, des carafes, des fourchettes, et des gosiers qui poussaient le bœuf vers les estomacs, cette rumeur de cordialité qui monte d’une table où les bonnes entrées n’empêchent pas les conversations, leur tapait un peu dans la tête.
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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