cornemuses
\kɔʁ.nə.myz\
The verdict
“cornemuses” is uncommon French (frequency #71,389 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,389
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de cornemuse.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cornemuses · cornemuses · French
cornemuses · rank #71,389 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,389
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cormoran
Nearest frequency peer: cormoran (-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 « cornemuses »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- corallien
corallien
28,615 corpus weight
- cordonnerie
cordonnerie
28,614 corpus weight
- cormoran
cormoran
28,613 corpus weight
- cornemuses
cornemuses
28,612 corpus weight
- corvo
corvo
28,611 corpus weight
- costumière
costumière
28,609 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cornemuses » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cornemuses |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔʁ.nə.myz\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #71,389 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cornemuses » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cornemuses is uncommon French at frequency #71,389 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɔʁ.nə.myz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de cornemuse.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for cornemuses, 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 usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is cornemuses, spelled C-O-R-N-E-M-U-S-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de cornemuse.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how cornemuses appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le Kevrenn Kastell compte dans ses rangs, bombardes, cornemuses, caisses-claires et percussions.
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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