cornets
\kɔʁ.nɛ\
The verdict
“cornets” is uncommon French (frequency #61,418 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,418
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de cornet.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cornets · cornets · French
cornets · rank #61,418 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,418
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH convoquant
Nearest frequency peer: convoquant (-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 « cornets »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- complétera
complétera
38,587 corpus weight
- condisciple
condisciple
38,586 corpus weight
- constructib…
constructibles
38,585 corpus weight
- convoquant
convoquant
38,584 corpus weight
- cornets
cornets
38,583 corpus weight
- corruptions
corruptions
38,581 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cornets » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cornets |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔʁ.nɛ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #61,418 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cornets » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cornets is uncommon French at frequency #61,418 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɔʁ.nɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de cornet.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for cornets, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. 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 spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is cornets, spelled C-O-R-N-E-T-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de cornet.
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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