cornélien
\kɔʁ.ne.ljɛ̃\
The verdict
“cornélien” is uncommon French (frequency #59,194 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,194
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui a le caractère du style de Pierre Corneille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cornelien · cornélien · French
cornélien · rank #59,194 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,194
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH convive
Nearest frequency peer: convive (-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 « cornélien »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- contrebandi…
contrebandier
40,810 corpus weight
- conviendrez
conviendrez
40,809 corpus weight
- convive
convive
40,808 corpus weight
- cornélien
cornélien
40,807 corpus weight
- corridas
corridas
40,806 corpus weight
- cosmopoliti…
cosmopolitisme
40,805 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cornélien » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cornélien |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kɔʁ.ne.ljɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #59,194 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cornélien » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cornélien is uncommon French at frequency #59,194 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \kɔʁ.ne.ljɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
cornélien doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 cornélien, spelled C-O-R-N-É-L-I-E-N.
Definition
- 1Qui a le caractère du style de Pierre Corneille.
- 2Relatif aux tragédies de Pierre Corneille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cornélien appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
J’ai ôté toutes les dissertations cornéliennes qui anéantissent l’intérêt. ^([1])
Le vers cornélien a de la grandeur, de la simplicité et une grave harmonie.
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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