corrobore
\kɔ.ʁɔ.bɔʁ\
The verdict
“corrobore” is uncommon French (frequency #50,746 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,746
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de corroborer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-corrobore · corrobore · French
corrobore · rank #50,746 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,746
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH corniches
Nearest frequency peer: corniches (-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 « corrobore »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- coreligionn…
coreligionnaires
49,258 corpus weight
- corneilles
corneilles
49,257 corpus weight
- corniches
corniches
49,256 corpus weight
- corrobore
corrobore
49,255 corpus weight
- corsa
corsa
49,254 corpus weight
- corsage
corsage
49,253 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « corrobore » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | corrobore |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kɔ.ʁɔ.bɔʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #50,746 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « corrobore » en français
Rare enough to double-check
corrobore is uncommon French at frequency #50,746 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \kɔ.ʁɔ.bɔʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for corrobore, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is corrobore, spelled C-O-R-R-O-B-O-R-E.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de corroborer.
- 2Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de corroborer.
- 3Première personne du singulier du subjonctif présent de corroborer.
- 4Troisième personne du singulier du subjonctif présent de corroborer.
- 5Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif de corroborer.
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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