cormorans
\kɔʁ.mɔ.ʁɑ̃\
The verdict
“cormorans” is uncommon French (frequency #81,027 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,027
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de cormoran.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cormorans · cormorans · French
cormorans · rank #81,027 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,027
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH coopérants
Nearest frequency peer: coopérants (-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 « cormorans »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- contrebalan…
contrebalance
18,977 corpus weight
- contro
contro
18,976 corpus weight
- coopérants
coopérants
18,975 corpus weight
- cormorans
cormorans
18,974 corpus weight
- couvain
couvain
18,973 corpus weight
- crevaisons
crevaisons
18,971 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cormorans » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cormorans |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔʁ.mɔ.ʁɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #81,027 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cormorans » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cormorans is uncommon French at frequency #81,027 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɔʁ.mɔ.ʁɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de cormoran.".
cormorans has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 cormorans, spelled C-O-R-M-O-R-A-N-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de cormoran.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how cormorans appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C’est donc la tête bien pleine que j’effectuai mon paseo maritime et aéré, sous les survols des mouettes et des goélands, pendant qu’au ras des flots une escadrille de cormorans rejouait la bataille du Pacifique.
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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