Corelli
The verdict
“Corelli” is uncommon French (frequency #90,579 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,579
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-corelli · Corelli · French
Corelli · rank #90,579 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,579
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH convulsion
Nearest frequency peer: convulsion (-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 « Corelli »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
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contestons
9,426 corpus weight
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contracta
9,424 corpus weight
- convulsion
convulsion
9,423 corpus weight
- Corelli
Corelli
9,422 corpus weight
- costières
costières
9,419 corpus weight
- cotillon
cotillon
9,418 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Corelli » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Corelli |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #90,579 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Corelli » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Corelli is uncommon French at frequency #90,579 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Corelli in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is Corelli, spelled C-O-R-E-L-L-I.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Corelli appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Arcangelo Corelli.
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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