corniaud
\kɔʁ.njo\
The verdict
“corniaud” is uncommon French (frequency #92,588 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #92,588
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Chien bâtard, de race souvent non établie mais qui peut comprendre des croisements de chiens courants et de chiens d’arrêt, ce qui peut justifier un dressage en tant que chien de chasse.
Corpus desk
Index FR-corniaud · corniaud · French
corniaud · rank #92,588 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #92,588
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cori
Nearest frequency peer: cori (-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 « corniaud »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Corcelles
Corcelles
7,416 corpus weight
- corcovado
corcovado
7,415 corpus weight
- cori
cori
7,414 corpus weight
- corniaud
corniaud
7,413 corpus weight
- corvin
corvin
7,412 corpus weight
- Cotten
Cotten
7,411 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « corniaud » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | corniaud |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔʁ.njo\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #92,588 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « corniaud » en français
Rare enough to double-check
corniaud is uncommon French at frequency #92,588 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɔʁ.njo\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
corniaud doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is corniaud, spelled C-O-R-N-I-A-U-D.
Definition
- 1Chien bâtard, de race souvent non établie mais qui peut comprendre des croisements de chiens courants et de chiens d’arrêt, ce qui peut justifier un dressage en tant que chien de chasse.
- 2Chien de chasse peu, voire pas, efficace.
- 3Chien sans race.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how corniaud appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Vous pouvez avoir un chien de race qui ne vaut rien à la chasse et un corniaud qui sera super. Tout dépend de la race choisie. Quand j’ai cherché mon braque de Weimar je n’ai pas eu trop le choix, il y en a peu et les corniauds c’est impossible à trouver.
Il creuse, à l’aide de ses bâtards, de ses corniauds […] ce terrier de lapin.
This word in other languages
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).