coron
\kɔ.ʁɔ̃\
The verdict
“coron” is uncommon French (frequency #80,079 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,079
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Maison d’habitation de mineurs dans le nord de la France et en Wallonie datant de la fin du XIXᵉ siècle.
Corpus desk
Index FR-coron · coron · French
coron · rank #80,079 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,079
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH coronarienne
Nearest frequency peer: coronarienne (+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 « coron »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cornut
cornut
19,924 corpus weight
- coron
coron
19,922 corpus weight
- coronarienne
coronarienne
19,921 corpus weight
- cosses
cosses
19,920 corpus weight
- costumée
costumée
19,919 corpus weight
- coudonc
coudonc
19,918 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « coron » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | coron |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ.ʁɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #80,079 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « coron » en français
Rare enough to double-check
coron is uncommon French at frequency #80,079 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɔ.ʁɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for coron in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 coron, spelled C-O-R-O-N.
Definition
- 1Maison d’habitation de mineurs dans le nord de la France et en Wallonie datant de la fin du XIXᵉ siècle.
- 2Groupe formé par un certain nombre de ces habitations.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how coron appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sortant éreinté de la mine, Regagnant son noir coron, Le mineur que l’on croise et qui lève le poing Dit : le monde va changer de base.
Au Nord, c'étaient les corons La terre, c'était le charbon Le ciel, c'était l'horizon Les hommes, des mineurs de fond.
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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