Cornouaille
\kɔʁ.nu.ɑj\
The verdict
“Cornouaille” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #49,577. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #49,577
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pays de la Bretagne, aux environs de Quimper.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cornouaille · Cornouaille · French
Cornouaille · rank #49,577 · 13 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #49,577
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Cornwall
Nearest frequency peer: Cornwall (+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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « Cornouaille »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- contrastés
contrastés
50,427 corpus weight
- convenues
convenues
50,426 corpus weight
- Cornouaille
Cornouaille
50,424 corpus weight
- Cornwall
Cornwall
50,423 corpus weight
- corporatisme
corporatisme
50,422 corpus weight
- Cosette
Cosette
50,421 corpus weight
What this shows « Cornouaille » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Cornouaille |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \kɔʁ.nu.ɑj\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #49,577 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Cornouaille »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around Cornouaille (IPA \kɔʁ.nu.ɑj\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #49,577 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pays de la Bretagne, aux environs de Quimper.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for Cornouaille, with forms such as "ccornouaille", "conrouaille", and "cornnouaille". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "Cornouailles", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is Cornouaille, spelled C-O-R-N-O-U-A-I-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1Pays de la Bretagne, aux environs de Quimper.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Cornouaille appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En Cornouaille, les seigneurs ne sont pas fiers, mais ils n’ont pas coutume de donner aux femmes de leurs paysans des poignées de main à l’anglaise.
La Bretagne du Léon et celle de la Cornouaille n’ont pas exactement la même manière de se comporter vis-à-vis de l’Église. Les littérateurs bretons eux-mêmes opposent l’une à l’autre, couramment, la Bretagne cléricale du Léon et la Bretagne républicaine de Cornouaille.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccornouaille
- conrouaille
- cornnouaille
- cornoauille
- cornouaile
- cornouailel
- cornoualile
- cornouialle
- cornuoaille
- coronuaille
- corrnouaille
- cronouaille
- ocrnouaille
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Cornouaille - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).