cors
\kɔʁ\
The verdict
“cors” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #31,423) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #31,423
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de cor.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cors · cors · French
cors · rank #31,423 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #31,423
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cormier
Nearest frequency peer: cormier (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « cors »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- controversés
controversés
68,581 corpus weight
- converse
converse
68,580 corpus weight
- cormier
cormier
68,579 corpus weight
- cors
cors
68,578 corpus weight
- cottage
cottage
68,577 corpus weight
- couvents
couvents
68,576 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « cors » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cors |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔʁ\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #31,423 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « cors »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for cors is neighbouring look-alikes ("Cs", "CR", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \kɔʁ\. Frequency #31,423 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Gloss: "Pluriel de cor.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for cors, with forms such as "ccors", "corrs", and "cosr". 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 also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Cs", "CR", "cru", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is cors, spelled C-O-R-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de cor.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how cors appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un pédicure, auteur d’un traité de corporistique, qui vous fait vos cors par abonnement, et qui, si les républicains triomphent pendant six mois, deviendra certainement immortel.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccors
- corrs
- cosr
- ocrs
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cors - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).