cordouan
\kɔʁ.du.ɑ̃\
The verdict
“cordouan” is uncommon French (frequency #98,914 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #98,914
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Cuir de chèvre ou de mouton fabriqué à Cordoue, ou imitation de ce cuir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cordouan · cordouan · French
cordouan · rank #98,914 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #98,914
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH coproduite
Nearest frequency peer: coproduite (-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 « cordouan »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- contiendront
contiendront
1,090 corpus weight
- conventionn…
conventionnée
1,089 corpus weight
- coproduite
coproduite
1,088 corpus weight
- cordouan
cordouan
1,087 corpus weight
- cornières
cornières
1,086 corpus weight
- corresponde…
correspondence
1,084 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cordouan » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cordouan |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔʁ.du.ɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #98,914 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cordouan » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cordouan is uncommon French at frequency #98,914 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɔʁ.du.ɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Cuir de chèvre ou de mouton fabriqué à Cordoue, ou imitation de ce cuir.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for cordouan, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is cordouan, spelled C-O-R-D-O-U-A-N.
Definition
- 1Cuir de chèvre ou de mouton fabriqué à Cordoue, ou imitation de ce cuir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cordouan appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le cordouan était le cuir fabriqué par les Arabes à Cordoue, et le nom s’étendit à toutes les imitations, aussi longtemps que les Arabes eurent une industrie en Espagne ; plus tard, on fit venir ces mêmes peaux de la côte de Barbarie, et plus particulièrement du Maroc ; de ce moment, le cordouan fut appelé maroquin et Maroquin du Levant.
Il n’avait embarqué que quelques colis d’articles de Paris pour les boutiques de fancy de Saint-Pierre-Port, trois caisses pour l’hôpital de Guernesey, l’une de savon jaune, l’autre de chandelle à la baguette, et la troisième de cuir de semelle français et de cordouan choisi.
Synonyms
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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