Corine
\kɔ.ʁin\
The verdict
“Corine” is uncommon French (frequency #59,912 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,912
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prénom féminin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-corine · Corine · French
Corine · rank #59,912 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,912
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Cordy
Nearest frequency peer: Cordy (-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 « Corine »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- connaîtrons
connaîtrons
40,094 corpus weight
- conroy
conroy
40,093 corpus weight
- Cordy
Cordy
40,090 corpus weight
- Corine
Corine
40,089 corpus weight
- corsets
corsets
40,088 corpus weight
- crampon
crampon
40,085 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Corine » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Corine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \kɔ.ʁin\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #59,912 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Corine » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Corine is uncommon French at frequency #59,912 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \kɔ.ʁin\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Prénom féminin.".
Zero misspellings are on record for Corine in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 Corine, spelled C-O-R-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Prénom féminin.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Corine appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Voici la composition du nouveau bureau : Pascal Nadiras et Paulo Torres, co-présidents ; Michael Cueille, Christophe Simonie, vice-présidents ; Virginie Martinie, secrétaire ; Margaux Lissac, secrétaire adjointe ; Corine Simonie, trésorier ; Alexandre Lacombe, trésorier adjoint.
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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