cordons
\kɔʁ.dɔ̃\
The verdict
“cordons” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #24,531. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #24,531
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 13
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de cordon.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cordons · cordons · French
cordons · rank #24,531 · 11 variants · 13 confusables
- FREQ-MID #24,531
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 13 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH convivialité
Nearest frequency peer: convivialité (-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 « cordons »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- constituera…
constituerait
75,473 corpus weight
- contractions
contractions
75,472 corpus weight
- convivialité
convivialité
75,471 corpus weight
- cordons
cordons
75,470 corpus weight
- Cracovie
Cracovie
75,469 corpus weight
- crevette
crevette
75,468 corpus weight
What this shows « cordons » 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 | cordons |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔʁ.dɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #24,531 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 13 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « cordons »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around cordons (IPA \kɔʁ.dɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #24,531 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de cordon.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for cordons, with forms such as "ccordons", "codrons", and "corddons". 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 13 confusable-pair relationships, "corona", "créons", "cotons", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is cordons, spelled C-O-R-D-O-N-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de cordon.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how cordons appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’autorité féroce et sans contrôle de bachagas fantastiques, qui se mouchent gravement dans leurs grands cordons de la Légion d’honneur, et pour un oui ou pour un non font bâtonner les gens sur la plante des pieds.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccordons
- codrons
- corddons
- cordnos
- cordonns
- cordonss
- cordosn
- corodns
- corrdons
- crodons
- ocrdons
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cordons - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).