corral
\kɔ.ʁal\
The verdict
“corral” is uncommon French (frequency #55,174 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,174
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Enclos où l’on parque les animaux, en particulier les bovins.
Corpus desk
Index FR-corral · corral · French
corral · rank #55,174 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,174
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Coquerel
Nearest frequency peer: Coquerel (-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 « corral »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- copient
copient
44,830 corpus weight
- coprésident
coprésident
44,829 corpus weight
- Coquerel
Coquerel
44,828 corpus weight
- corral
corral
44,827 corpus weight
- courtine
courtine
44,826 corpus weight
- crachait
crachait
44,824 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « corral » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | corral |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ.ʁal\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #55,174 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « corral » en français
Rare enough to double-check
corral is uncommon French at frequency #55,174 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɔ.ʁal\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
corral doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is corral, spelled C-O-R-R-A-L.
Definition
- 1Enclos où l’on parque les animaux, en particulier les bovins.
- 2Enclos attenant à l’arène, où sont parqués les taureaux avant la corrida.
- 3Au Sri Lanka, amphithéâtre destiné à emprisonner les éléphants sauvages.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how corral appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Prés de là est le corral, enceinte circulaire, plus ou moins vaste, formée de pieux enfoncés en terre, avec une seule ouverture fermée par une porte pour l’entrée et la sortie des animaux.
Le corral était fermé par un enclos en planches hautes de deux mètres environ.
This word in other languages
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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