cornille
French, noun/kɔʁ.nij/
cornille is spelled C-O-R-N-I-L-L-E (8 letters) and appears about once in every 10 million words in written French, the 102,288th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Cornille is a French feminine noun meaning “black-eyed pea” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Nom usuel de plusieurs sous-espèces de Vigna unguiculata, plante annuelle courante en Afrique, en Amérique…”.
What does cornille mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineblack-eyed pea
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Nom usuel de plusieurs sous-espèces de Vigna unguiculata, plante annuelle courante en Afrique, en Amérique latine et dans le sud des États-Unis, de la famille des Fabaceae et qui produit un haricot de taille moyenne en forme de rein blanchâtre avec un point noir.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of cornille
- cornilles plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce cornille?
- /kɔʁ.nij/
- \kɔʁ.nij\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is cornille in French?
cornille appears about once in every 10 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).