coronavirus
The verdict
“coronavirus” is a moderately-common French word, ranked #25,264 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #25,264
- frequency rank, French
- 11
- letters
- 16
- tracked misspellings
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Genre de virus à ARN de la famille des Coronaviridae et du sous-ordre des Cornidovirineae.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | coronavirus |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ.ʁɔ.na.vi.ʁys\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #25,264 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “coronavirus” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for coronavirus is 11 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɔ.ʁɔ.na.vi.ʁys\. Corpus data places it at rank #25,264 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for coronavirus, with forms such as "ccoronavirus", "coornavirus", and "cornoavirus". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is coronavirus, spelled C-O-R-O-N-A-V-I-R-U-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Genre de virus à ARN de la famille des Coronaviridae et du sous-ordre des Cornidovirineae.
- 2Coronavirus 2 du syndrome respiratoire aigu sévère (SARS-CoV-2), virus donnant la maladie à coronavirus 2019 (Covid-19).
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccoronavirus,coornavirus,cornoavirus,coroanvirus,coronaivrus,coronavirrus,coronavirsu,coronaviruss,coronaviurs,coronavrius,coronavvirus,coronnavirus,coronvairus,corronavirus,croonavirus,ocronavirus
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of coronavirus — measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
Edit distance from "coronavirus"
Frequency rank: #25,264 in French
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Using “coronavirus”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is C-O-R-O-N-A-V-I-R-U-S — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \kɔ.ʁɔ.na.vi.ʁys\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Nearby French words
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