cornut
\kuɾ.ˈnut\
The verdict
“cornut” is uncommon French (frequency #80,077 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,077
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Cornu.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cornut · cornut · French
cornut · rank #80,077 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,077
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH coron
Nearest frequency peer: coron (+2 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 « cornut »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- contrôleuse
contrôleuse
19,929 corpus weight
- conventuels
conventuels
19,928 corpus weight
- cornut
cornut
19,924 corpus weight
- coron
coron
19,922 corpus weight
- coronarienne
coronarienne
19,921 corpus weight
- cosses
cosses
19,920 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cornut » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cornut |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kuɾ.ˈnut\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #80,077 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cornut » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cornut is uncommon French at frequency #80,077 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \kuɾ.ˈnut\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Cornu.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for cornut, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is cornut, spelled C-O-R-N-U-T.
Definition
- 1Cornu.
Synonyms
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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