cornouiller
\kɔʁ.nu.je\
The verdict
“cornouiller” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Arbuste de la famille des Cornaceae ou cornacées , du genre Cornus dont le type, le cornouiller mâle (Cornus mas), est remarquable par la dureté de son bois et par ses fruits rouges, nommées cornou...
Corpus desk
Index FR-cornouiller · cornouiller · French
cornouiller · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 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 | cornouiller |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔʁ.nu.je\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cornouiller » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cornouiller is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɔʁ.nu.je\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for cornouiller in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is cornouiller, spelled C-O-R-N-O-U-I-L-L-E-R.
Definition
- 1Arbuste de la famille des Cornaceae ou cornacées , du genre Cornus dont le type, le cornouiller mâle (Cornus mas), est remarquable par la dureté de son bois et par ses fruits rouges, nommées cornouilles.
- 2Bois de cornouiller.
- 3Bâton de bois de cornouiller.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cornouiller appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Robuste et droit, la jambe raidie par son vieux rhumatisme, il va s’appuyant sur ce bâton de cornouiller dont il a usé le fer en vingt années de vagabondage. Car, dans ses aventures nocturnes, il n’a jamais perdu ni sa pipe ni sa canne.
Les grands événements de la journée étaient le passage du facteur. Il allait de porte en porte, sa canne de cornouiller sur le bras, son sac de cuir bourré de papiers sur le ventre, et il déposait chez les gens les lettres, les papiers qui apportent la joie ou la tristesse.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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.