Cordoue
\kɔʁ.du\
The verdict
“Cordoue” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #32,357. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #32,357
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune et ville d’Espagne, chef-lieu de la province du même nom.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cordoue · Cordoue · French
Cordoue · rank #32,357 · 9 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #32,357
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH coqueluche
Nearest frequency peer: coqueluche (-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 « Cordoue »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- convocations
convocations
67,647 corpus weight
- copieusement
copieusement
67,646 corpus weight
- coqueluche
coqueluche
67,645 corpus weight
- Cordoue
Cordoue
67,644 corpus weight
- cornichons
cornichons
67,643 corpus weight
- cosplay
cosplay
67,642 corpus weight
What this shows « Cordoue » 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 | Cordoue |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \kɔʁ.du\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #32,357 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Cordoue »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around Cordoue (IPA \kɔʁ.du\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #32,357 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for Cordoue, with forms such as "ccordoue", "codroue", and "corddoue". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "Corfou", "cordon", "cordée", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is Cordoue, spelled C-O-R-D-O-U-E.
Definition
- 1Commune et ville d’Espagne, chef-lieu de la province du même nom.
- 2Province d’Espagne située dans la communauté autonome d’Andalousie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Cordoue appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Cordoue, autrefois le centre de la civilisation arabe, n’est plus aujourd’hui qu’un amas de petites maisons blanches par-dessus lesquelles jaillissent quelques figuiers d’Inde à la verdure métallique, quelque palmier épanoui comme un crabe de feuillage, et que divisent en îlots d’étroits corridors par où deux mulets auraient peine à passer de front.
Lorsque Góngora quitta Madrid pour retourner finir ses jours à Cordoue, Quevedo vint occuper sa maison et, y posant le pied, déclara qu’il fallait « dégongoriser » les lieux !
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccordoue
- codroue
- corddoue
- cordoeu
- corduoe
- corodue
- corrdoue
- crodoue
- ocrdoue
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Cordoue - 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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