corset
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#30,114
in French word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
corset is aFrenchnoun. It means: Vêtement militaire en cuir ou en acier destiné à protéger le thorax. Pronounced \kɔʁ.sɛ\. Often confused with cost and corte.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | corset |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔʁ.sɛ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #30,114 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for corset is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɔʁ.sɛ\. Corpus data places it at rank #30,114 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 9 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 corset, with forms such as "ccorset", "corest", and "corrset". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "cost", "corte", "cosse", 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 corset, spelled C-O-R-S-E-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Vêtement militaire en cuir ou en acier destiné à protéger le thorax.
- 2Sous-vêtement baleiné et lacé, destiné à soutenir la poitrine, à serrer la taille et le ventre, à maintenir les bas et qui se mettait d’ordinaire sous le corsage ou la chemise.
- 3Corsage.
- 4Soutien, armature, maintien, renforcement, etc.
- 5Protection de quelque chose de fragile et précieux.
- 6Ensemble de règles limitatives.
- 7Bandage qui entoure le tronc et le soutien fermement.
- 8Armature de métal, de bois ou de paille qui protège les jeunes arbres.
- 9Assignat de cinq livres émis sous la Révolution française, appelé ainsi car signé par Corset, (aussi orthographié Corcet par Châteaubriand dans ses Mémoires d'outre-tombe, Livre XIX, chapitre 6).
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccorset,corest,corrset,corsett,corsset,corste,cosret,croset,ocrset
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for corset
Misspelling Variants of "corset"
Frequency rank: #30,114 in French
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