cornières
\kɔʁ.njɛʁ\
The verdict
“cornières” is uncommon French (frequency #98,915 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #98,915
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Équerres de fer qui sont attachées aux angles du marbre d’une presse d’imprimerie et qui servent à maintenir la forme.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cornieres · cornières · French
cornières · rank #98,915 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #98,915
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cordouan
Nearest frequency peer: cordouan (-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 « cornières »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- conventionn…
conventionnée
1,089 corpus weight
- coproduite
coproduite
1,088 corpus weight
- cordouan
cordouan
1,087 corpus weight
- cornières
cornières
1,086 corpus weight
- corresponde…
correspondence
1,084 corpus weight
- cosmétologie
cosmétologie
1,083 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cornières » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cornières |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔʁ.njɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #98,915 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cornières » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cornières is uncommon French at frequency #98,915 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɔʁ.njɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Équerres de fer qui sont attachées aux angles du marbre d’une presse d’imprimerie et qui servent à maintenir la forme.".
No misspelling variants are generated for cornières in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable 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, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is cornières, spelled C-O-R-N-I-È-R-E-S.
Definition
- 1Équerres de fer qui sont attachées aux angles du marbre d’une presse d’imprimerie et qui servent à maintenir la forme.
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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