corinde
\kɔ.ʁɛ̃d\
The verdict
“corinde” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Genre de plantes de la famille des sapindées, appelé également cardiosperme ou corindon, dont les semences servent à faire des colliers pour les femmes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-corinde · corinde · French
corinde · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "C" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | corinde |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ.ʁɛ̃d\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « corinde » en français
Rare enough to double-check
corinde is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɔ.ʁɛ̃d\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for corinde, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 corinde, spelled C-O-R-I-N-D-E.
Definition
- 1Genre de plantes de la famille des sapindées, appelé également cardiosperme ou corindon, dont les semences servent à faire des colliers pour les femmes.
- 2Autre nom du corindon.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how corinde appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Cinq autres terres ont été annoncées par quelques savans […] La witherite […] La strontiane […] La zirconie […] La corinde est la terre particulière que le même chimiste [Martin Heinrich Klaproth] a trouvée dans le spath adamantin (corindon des Chinois) unie à 0,66 d’alumine […] Enfin l’australe […]
Synonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.