cornus
\kɔʁ.ny\
The verdict
“cornus” is uncommon French (frequency #82,822 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,822
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de cornu.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cornus · cornus · French
cornus · rank #82,822 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,822
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Cornelis
Nearest frequency peer: Cornelis (-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 « cornus »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- conviendront
conviendront
17,182 corpus weight
- copi
copi
17,181 corpus weight
- Cornelis
Cornelis
17,180 corpus weight
- cornus
cornus
17,179 corpus weight
- coruscant
coruscant
17,178 corpus weight
- cotonniers
cotonniers
17,177 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cornus » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cornus |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kɔʁ.ny\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #82,822 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cornus » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cornus is uncommon French at frequency #82,822 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \kɔʁ.ny\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Masculin pluriel de cornu.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for cornus, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is cornus, spelled C-O-R-N-U-S.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de cornu.
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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