cortex
\kɔʁ.tɛks\
The verdict
“cortex” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #17,397. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #17,397
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Couche superficielle ou périphérique d’un tissu organique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cortex · cortex · French
cortex · rank #17,397 · 9 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #17,397
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH correspondait
Nearest frequency peer: correspondait (-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 « cortex »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- cop
cop
82,607 corpus weight
- correctionn…
correctionnel
82,606 corpus weight
- corresponda…
correspondait
82,605 corpus weight
- cortex
cortex
82,604 corpus weight
- couchée
couchée
82,603 corpus weight
- critiquée
critiquée
82,602 corpus weight
What this shows « cortex » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | cortex |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔʁ.tɛks\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #17,397 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « cortex »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around cortex (IPA \kɔʁ.tɛks\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #17,397 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for cortex, with forms such as "ccortex", "coretx", and "corrtex". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "côte", "coûte", "côtes", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is cortex, spelled C-O-R-T-E-X.
Definition
- 1Couche superficielle ou périphérique d’un tissu organique.
- 2Cortex cérébral.
- 3Cylindre cortical.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cortex appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le cortex cérébral.
Le cortex n’est pas seulement, par le système pyramidal, le subtil instrument de l’activité cinétique supérieure, il est aussi chez l’homme le contrôle suprême et l’instance dernière des activités sub-corticales.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccortex
- coretx
- corrtex
- cortexx
- corttex
- cortxe
- cotrex
- crotex
- ocrtex
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cortex - 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.
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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).