corpus
French, noun/kɔʁ.pys/
corpus is spelled C-O-R-P-U-S (6 letters) and appears 4.8 times per million words in written French, the 11,545th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Corpus is a French masculine noun meaning “a corpus, a body of texts” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Recueil de pièces, de documents concernant une même matière, les mêmes règles”.
What does corpus mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinea corpus, a body of texts
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Recueil de pièces, de documents concernant une même matière, les mêmes règles. 2. Agrégat de textes qui tendent à prendre l’aspect d’un tout cohérent. 3. Ensemble de l’œuvre d’un écrivain ou d’un peintre. 4. Exercice matériel du droit.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
How do you pronounce corpus?
- /kɔʁ.pys/
- \kɔʁ.pys\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to corpus
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is corpus in French?
corpus appears 4.8 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).