cornue

\kɔʁ.ny\

/\kɔʁ.ny\/ noun

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

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cornue » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for cornue
PropertyValue
Headwordcornue
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\kɔʁ.ny\
Letters6
Frequency rank#85,597
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « cornue » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.cornuetombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « coronarien » (#85,598), « coppa » (#85,595), « cossue » (#85,599). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « cornue » est au #85,597. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    Récipient qui sert à distiller.
  2. 2
    Récipient métallique servant à diverses opérations dans les usines sidérurgiques.
  3. 3
    Récipient de bois servant à transporter la vendange. → voir comporte et gerle

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how cornue appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. 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.
  2. 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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "cornue"?
"cornue" is spelled C-O-R-N-U-E. The IPA pronunciation is \kɔʁ.ny\.
What does "cornue" mean?
As a noun, "cornue" means: Récipient qui sert à distiller.
How do you pronounce "cornue"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "cornue" is \kɔʁ.ny\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "cornue" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "cornue", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list