cork
\kɔʁk\
The verdict
“cork” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #46,088. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #46,088
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Saut composé d'une rotation faisant passer la planche par dessus la tête.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cork · cork · French
cork · rank #46,088 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #46,088
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Cooke
Nearest frequency peer: Cooke (-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 « cork »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- contestant
contestant
53,916 corpus weight
- Cooke
Cooke
53,914 corpus weight
- cork
cork
53,913 corpus weight
- corrompues
corrompues
53,912 corpus weight
- cotta
cotta
53,911 corpus weight
- Coulon
Coulon
53,910 corpus weight
What this shows « cork » 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 | cork |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔʁk\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #46,088 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « cork »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around cork (IPA \kɔʁk\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #46,088 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Saut composé d'une rotation faisant passer la planche par dessus la tête.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for cork, with forms such as "ccork", "cokr", and "corkk". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "CR", "cru", "cou", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is cork, spelled C-O-R-K.
Definition
- 1Saut composé d'une rotation faisant passer la planche par dessus la tête.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccork
- cokr
- corkk
- corrk
- crok
- ocrk
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cork - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).