cornue
\kɔʁ.ny\
The verdict
“cornue” is uncommon French (frequency #85,597 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,597
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Récipient qui sert à distiller.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cornue · cornue · French
cornue · rank #85,597 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,597
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH coronarien
Nearest frequency peer: coronarien (+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 « cornue »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- conviées
conviées
14,408 corpus weight
- coppa
coppa
14,406 corpus weight
- cornue
cornue
14,404 corpus weight
- coronarien
coronarien
14,403 corpus weight
- cossue
cossue
14,402 corpus weight
- cossus
cossus
14,401 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cornue » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cornue |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔʁ.ny\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #85,597 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cornue » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cornue is uncommon French at frequency #85,597 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɔʁ.ny\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for cornue in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is cornue, spelled C-O-R-N-U-E.
Definition
- 1Récipient qui sert à distiller.
- 2Récipient métallique servant à diverses opérations dans les usines sidérurgiques.
- 3Récipient de bois servant à transporter la vendange. → voir comporte et gerle
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cornue appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Non, rien, si ce n'est, avec le sifflement de la cornue étincelante, les rires moqueurs d'un salamandre qui se fait un jeu de troubler mes méditations.
On obtient d’ailleurs artificiellement le réalgar en chauffant dans des cornues un mélange, en proportions convenables, de soufre et d’arsenic, ou d’acide arsénieux, de soufre et de charbon mais, d’après M. Guibourt, la densité du sulfure artificiel n’est que de 3.243 et ce composé diffère notablement par sens propriétés du réalgar naturel.
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); 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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