cornique
\kɔʁ.nik\
The verdict
“cornique” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Langue celtique insulaire (groupe brittonique) de la famille des langues indo-européennes, parlée en Cornouailles (Grande-Bretagne).
Corpus desk
Index FR-cornique · cornique · French
cornique · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "C" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cornique |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔʁ.nik\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cornique » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cornique is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɔʁ.nik\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Langue celtique insulaire (groupe brittonique) de la famille des langues indo-européennes, parlée en Cornouailles (Grande-Bretagne).".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for cornique, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is cornique, spelled C-O-R-N-I-Q-U-E.
Definition
- 1Langue celtique insulaire (groupe brittonique) de la famille des langues indo-européennes, parlée en Cornouailles (Grande-Bretagne).
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how cornique appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
D'ailleurs, ajoutai-je, n'est-ce pas une chose déplorable qu'une langue disparaisse sans laisser de traces ? Depuis une trentaine d'années, le prussien n'est plus qu'une langue morte. La dernière personne qui savait le cornique est morte l'autre jour…
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.