cornée
\kɔʁ.ne\
The verdict
“cornée” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #33,194. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #33,194
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Partie transparente insérée dans la sclérotique de l’œil devant le cristallin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cornee · cornée · French
cornée · rank #33,194 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #33,194
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH coriandre
Nearest frequency peer: coriandre (-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 « cornée »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- coranique
coranique
66,811 corpus weight
- cordeliers
cordeliers
66,809 corpus weight
- coriandre
coriandre
66,808 corpus weight
- cornée
cornée
66,807 corpus weight
- cosse
cosse
66,806 corpus weight
- coupait
coupait
66,804 corpus weight
What this shows « cornée » 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 | cornée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔʁ.ne\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #33,194 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « cornée »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around cornée (IPA \kɔʁ.ne\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #33,194 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for cornée, with forms such as "ccornée", "conrée", and "cornee". 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, "crée", "corse", "créée", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is cornée, spelled C-O-R-N-É-E.
Definition
- 1Partie transparente insérée dans la sclérotique de l’œil devant le cristallin.
- 2Partie distale dioptrique, plus ou moins biconvexe, de chaque ommatidie dans l'œil composé (...) dans les ocelles, partie de la cuticule transparente et dure qui forme la lentille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how cornée appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les glandes lacrymales sont situées dans la partie supérieure de l'orbite des yeux. C’est de là que sont sécrétées les larmes essentielles à la lubrification et à la nutrition de la cornée et qui contiennent des composants antibactériens. "Le dysfonctionnement de la glande lacrymale peut […] avoir des conséquences graves, notamment une sécheresse oculaire…
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccornée
- conrée
- cornee
- corneé
- cornnée
- corrnée
- cronée
- ocrnée
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cornée - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).