cormoran
\kɔʁ.mɔ.ʁɑ̃\
The verdict
“cormoran” is uncommon French (frequency #71,388 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,388
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Oiseau palmipède aquatique qui vit ordinairement de poisson, de taille moyenne à grande, au corps allongé, au long cou généralement flexible et au bec puissant et crochu.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cormoran · cormoran · French
cormoran · rank #71,388 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,388
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cordonnerie
Nearest frequency peer: cordonnerie (-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 « cormoran »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- contrepèter…
contrepèterie
28,616 corpus weight
- corallien
corallien
28,615 corpus weight
- cordonnerie
cordonnerie
28,614 corpus weight
- cormoran
cormoran
28,613 corpus weight
- cornemuses
cornemuses
28,612 corpus weight
- corvo
corvo
28,611 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cormoran » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cormoran |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔʁ.mɔ.ʁɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #71,388 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cormoran » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cormoran is uncommon French at frequency #71,388 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɔʁ.mɔ.ʁɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
cormoran doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is cormoran, spelled C-O-R-M-O-R-A-N.
Definition
- 1Oiseau palmipède aquatique qui vit ordinairement de poisson, de taille moyenne à grande, au corps allongé, au long cou généralement flexible et au bec puissant et crochu.
- 2(au sens étroit) Variante de grand cormoran.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cormoran appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Là aussi, il y avait des hommes dressés, comme les cormorans et les chiens de chasse, à rapporter à leurs maîtres le poisson et le gibier, en échange duquel on leur donnait un morceau de pain.
Ils étaient cinq, vêtus de noir, autour de ma valise ouverte. Cinq cormorans sur la grève, prêts à se disputer les entrailles d’un congre abandonné.
Synonyms
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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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