corinthien
\kɔ.ʁɛ̃.tjɛ̃\
The verdict
“corinthien” is uncommon French (frequency #62,889 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,889
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui provient de Corinthe.
Corpus desk
Index FR-corinthien · corinthien · French
corinthien · rank #62,889 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,889
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH corda
Nearest frequency peer: corda (-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 « corinthien »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- conventionné
conventionné
37,114 corpus weight
- corda
corda
37,113 corpus weight
- corinthien
corinthien
37,112 corpus weight
- Corrado
Corrado
37,111 corpus weight
- Corées
Corées
37,109 corpus weight
- cosmogonie
cosmogonie
37,108 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « corinthien » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | corinthien |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kɔ.ʁɛ̃.tjɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #62,889 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « corinthien » en français
Rare enough to double-check
corinthien is uncommon French at frequency #62,889 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \kɔ.ʁɛ̃.tjɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
corinthien has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is corinthien, spelled C-O-R-I-N-T-H-I-E-N.
Definition
- 1Qui provient de Corinthe.
- 2Qui appartiennent à l’ordre corinthien.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how corinthien appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La moulure E est une scotie, nommée rond creux ou nacelle ; elle sert aux bases des colonnes Ionique, Composite & Corinthien, pour faire opposition aux tores qui sont des moulures convexes ; ce qui forme une agréable diversité lorsqu'elles sont séparées par des listeaux.
Les colonnes, toutes d’un seul morceau, n’ont guère plus de dix à douze pieds jusqu’au chapiteau d’un corinthien arabe plein de force et d’élégance, qui rappelle plutôt le palmier d’Afrique que l’acanthe de Grèce.
This word in other languages
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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