corneille
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#15,344
in French word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
3
similar word pairs
corneille is aFrenchnoun. It means: Oiseau passereau de couleur noire (ou partiellement noire), de la famille des corvidés, voisin du corbeau mais de plus petite taille. Pronounced \kɔʁ.nɛj\. Often confused with conseille and corbeille.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | corneille |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔʁ.nɛj\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #15,344 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for corneille is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɔʁ.nɛj\. Corpus data places it at rank #15,344 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for corneille, with forms such as "ccorneille", "conreille", and "corenille". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "conseille", "corbeille", "corbeilles", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is corneille, spelled C-O-R-N-E-I-L-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Oiseau passereau de couleur noire (ou partiellement noire), de la famille des corvidés, voisin du corbeau mais de plus petite taille.
- 2Cornéole.
- 3Meuble représentant l’animal du même nom dans les armoiries. Il se blasonne comme le corbeau dont il diffère peu sinon par la taille (plus petit), ce qui ne permet pas une identification aisée (risque de confusion).
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccorneille,conreille,corenille,corneile,corneilel,cornelile,cornielle,cornneille,corrneille,croneille,ocrneille
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for corneille
Misspelling Variants of "corneille"
Frequency rank: #15,344 in French
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