cormet
\kɔʁ.mɛ\
The verdict
“cormet” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 6
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Col, passage entre deux montagnes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cormet · cormet · French
cormet · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 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 | cormet |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔʁ.mɛ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cormet » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cormet is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɔʁ.mɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Col, passage entre deux montagnes.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for cormet, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is cormet, spelled C-O-R-M-E-T.
Definition
- 1Col, passage entre deux montagnes.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how cormet appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le mot cormet, qui dérive probablement de culmen, sommet, indique l’extrémité du vallon, le passage qui communique avec le versant opposé et répond assez bien au mot Col.
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.