Cornelius
The verdict
“Cornelius” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #32,764. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #32,764
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille romain.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cornelius · Cornelius · French
Cornelius · rank #32,764 · 13 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #32,764
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH consultante
Nearest frequency peer: consultante (-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 « Cornelius »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- consentie
consentie
67,240 corpus weight
- constructiv…
constructives
67,239 corpus weight
- consultante
consultante
67,238 corpus weight
- Cornelius
Cornelius
67,237 corpus weight
- Corsica
Corsica
67,236 corpus weight
- courgette
courgette
67,235 corpus weight
What this shows « Cornelius » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Cornelius |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #32,764 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Cornelius »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around Cornelius, aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #32,764 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Nom de famille romain.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for Cornelius, with forms such as "ccornelius", "conrelius", and "corenlius". 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 is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists 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 Cornelius, spelled C-O-R-N-E-L-I-U-S.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille romain.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Cornelius appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Publius Cornelius Scipio (IIIᵉ siècle av. J.-C.)
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccornelius
- conrelius
- corenlius
- corneilus
- cornelisu
- corneliuss
- cornellius
- corneluis
- cornleius
- cornnelius
- corrnelius
- cronelius
- ocrnelius
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Cornelius - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).