cortège

\kɔʁ.tɛʒ\

/\kɔʁ.tɛʒ\/ noun

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The verdict

“cortège” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #10,131. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#10,131
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords
11
tracked misspellings
14
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Suite de personnes qui en accompagnent une autre avec cérémonie et pour lui faire honneur.

Corpus desk

Index FR-cortege · cortège · French

cortège · rank #10,131 · 11 variants · 14 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #10,131
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 14 pairs
  • VAR-MID 11 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH conçus

Nearest frequency peer: conçus (-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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « cortège »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « cortège » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

cortège vs cotée
57% similar
cortège vs cortex
57% similar
cortège vs corvée
57% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for cortège
PropertyValue
Headwordcortège
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\kɔʁ.tɛʒ\
Letters7
Frequency rank#10,131
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs14
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « cortège »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).cortègese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « conçus » (#10,130), « conteste » (#10,129), « courent » (#10,133). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « cortège » est au #10,131. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 11 spelling variants around cortège (IPA \kɔʁ.tɛʒ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #10,131 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for cortège, with forms such as "ccortège", "corrtège", and "cortege". 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 14 confusable-pair relationships, "cotée", "cortex", "corvée", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is cortège, spelled C-O-R-T-È-G-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Suite de personnes qui en accompagnent une autre avec cérémonie et pour lui faire honneur.
  2. 2
    Groupe qui défile dans les rues d'un village en signe de protestation, de revendication ou de solidarité.
  3. 3
    Suite, série, accompagnement.
  4. 4
    Cortège électronique : Ensemble des électrons qui gravitent autour du noyau d'un atome

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how cortège appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Les souverains, pendant tout leur séjour, furent accompagnées d’un imposant cortège.
  2. Grossir le cortège.

This word in other languages

procession(English)cortejo(Español)Umzug(Deutsch)comitiva(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ccortège
  • corrtège
  • cortege
  • cortgèe
  • corttège
  • cortèeg
  • cortègge
  • corètge
  • cotrège
  • crotège
  • ocrtège

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cortège - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

ccortège1corrtège1cortege1cortgèe2corttège1cortèeg2cortègge1corètge2
Edit distance from "cortège"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "cortège"?
"cortège" is spelled C-O-R-T-È-G-E. The IPA pronunciation is \kɔʁ.tɛʒ\.
What does "cortège" mean?
As a noun, "cortège" means: Suite de personnes qui en accompagnent une autre avec cérémonie et pour lui faire honneur.
What words are commonly confused with "cortège"?
"cortège" is commonly confused with "cotée", "cortex", "corvée". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "cortège"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "cortège" is \kɔʁ.tɛʒ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "cortège" come from?
"cortège" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "cortège", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

courent#10,133civique#10,125chaudes#10,124demanda#10,138

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).

British11 variantsdéfinis11 variantsexcessive11 variantsgarantit11 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list