Cornelis
\kɔʁ.ne.lis\
The verdict
“Cornelis” is uncommon French (frequency #82,821 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,821
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille néerlandais.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cornelis · Cornelis · French
Cornelis · rank #82,821 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,821
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH copi
Nearest frequency peer: copi (-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 « Cornelis »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- contribuera…
contribueraient
17,183 corpus weight
- conviendront
conviendront
17,182 corpus weight
- copi
copi
17,181 corpus weight
- Cornelis
Cornelis
17,180 corpus weight
- cornus
cornus
17,179 corpus weight
- coruscant
coruscant
17,178 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Cornelis » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Cornelis |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \kɔʁ.ne.lis\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #82,821 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Cornelis » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Cornelis is uncommon French at frequency #82,821 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \kɔʁ.ne.lis\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille néerlandais.".
No misspelling variants are generated for Cornelis in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is Cornelis, spelled C-O-R-N-E-L-I-S.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille néerlandais.
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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