correct
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#5,647
in French word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
11
similar word pairs
correct is anFrenchadj. It means: Où il n’y a pas de fautes. Il se dit surtout du style, de l’expression et du langage. Pronounced \kɔ.ʁɛkt\. It ranks #5,647 in French word frequency. Often confused with corset and courent.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | correct |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \kɔ.ʁɛkt\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #5,647 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for correct is 7 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɔ.ʁɛkt\. Corpus data places it at rank #5,647 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for correct, with forms such as "ccorrect", "corect", and "corerct". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 11 confusable-pair relationships, "corset", "courent", "Corrèze", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 correct, spelled C-O-R-R-E-C-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Où il n’y a pas de fautes. Il se dit surtout du style, de l’expression et du langage.
- 2Qui est conforme aux règles de la morale, aux usages du monde, aux circonstances, aux prescriptions ou aux règles non écrites d'un milieu.
- 3Quelque chose qui convient, avec laquelle on est d’accord. Quelque chose de vraiment bien, de vraiment bon, voire d’excellent.
- 4Qualificatif appliqué ironiquement à l’attitude de l’armée d’occupation allemande en France en 1939-1945.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccorrect,corect,corerct,corrcet,correcct,correctt,corretc,crorect,ocrrect
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "correct"
Frequency rank: #5,647 in French
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