Cornish
\ˈkɔː.nɪʃ\
The verdict
“Cornish” is uncommon French (frequency #66,619 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,619
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Cornique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cornish · Cornish · French
Cornish · rank #66,619 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,619
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH copieuse
Nearest frequency peer: copieuse (-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 « Cornish »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- convergents
convergents
33,386 corpus weight
- copieur
copieur
33,384 corpus weight
- copieuse
copieuse
33,383 corpus weight
- Cornish
Cornish
33,382 corpus weight
- corporatives
corporatives
33,381 corpus weight
- cossette
cossette
33,379 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Cornish » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Cornish |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ˈkɔː.nɪʃ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #66,619 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Cornish » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Cornish is uncommon French at frequency #66,619 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ˈkɔː.nɪʃ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Cornique.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Cornish, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is Cornish, spelled C-O-R-N-I-S-H.
Definition
- 1Cornique.
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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