cornette
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#56,519
in French word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
cornette is aFrenchnoun. It means: Coiffure de certaines religieuses. Pronounced \kɔʁ.nɛt\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cornette |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔʁ.nɛt\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #56,519 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for cornette is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɔʁ.nɛt\. Corpus data places it at rank #56,519 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for cornette in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns.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 explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is cornette, spelled C-O-R-N-E-T-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Coiffure de certaines religieuses.
- 2Coiffe folklorique de femme.
- 3Coiffure dont les femmes se servaient dans leur déshabillé.
- 4Outil servant à découper le cuir.
- 5Sorte de long pavillon à deux pointes ou cornes, qui est la marque distinctive de l’officier qui commande une division de trois bâtiments au moins.
- 6Étendard d’une compagnie de cavalerie ou de chevau-légers.
- 7Coquillette. (Ce terme est généralement utilisé au pluriel.)
- 8Protection métallique mise dans les angles en bas des murs pour éviter que les véhicules ne les dégradent.
Frequency rank: #56,519 in French
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