corniches
\kɔʁ.niʃ\
The verdict
“corniches” is uncommon French (frequency #50,745 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,745
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de corniche.
Corpus desk
Index FR-corniches · corniches · French
corniches · rank #50,745 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,745
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH corneilles
Nearest frequency peer: corneilles (-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 « corniches »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- corbie
corbie
49,259 corpus weight
- coreligionn…
coreligionnaires
49,258 corpus weight
- corneilles
corneilles
49,257 corpus weight
- corniches
corniches
49,256 corpus weight
- corrobore
corrobore
49,255 corpus weight
- corsa
corsa
49,254 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « corniches » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | corniches |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔʁ.niʃ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #50,745 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « corniches » en français
Rare enough to double-check
corniches is uncommon French at frequency #50,745 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɔʁ.niʃ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for corniches in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 corniches, spelled C-O-R-N-I-C-H-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de corniche.
- 2Ensemble des mâts intermédiaires, placés entre les mâts de charge centraux et les poteaux de tour, pour sous-tendre la toile d'un chapiteau.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how corniches appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Puis venait un salon à trois croisées sur la rue, blanc et rouge à corniches élégamment profilées, à peintures fines, où rien ne papillotait.
Les monteurs eux-mêmes se répartissaient en plusieurs groupes. Un des plus importants érigeait les mâts, plantait les pinces, tendait les haubans, fixait les corniches, bref hissait le chapiteau.
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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