corton
\kɔʁ.tɔ̃\
The verdict
“corton” is uncommon French (frequency #86,577 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,577
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - En Flandre française, valet de ferme. — (les Primes d’honneur, page 59, Paris, 1874)
Corpus desk
Index FR-corton · corton · French
corton · rank #86,577 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,577
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH corsée
Nearest frequency peer: corsée (-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 « corton »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Coromandel
Coromandel
13,427 corpus weight
- corréler
corréler
13,426 corpus weight
- corsée
corsée
13,425 corpus weight
- corton
corton
13,424 corpus weight
- cosmodrome
cosmodrome
13,422 corpus weight
- coupais
coupais
13,421 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « corton » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | corton |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔʁ.tɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #86,577 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « corton » en français
Rare enough to double-check
corton is uncommon French at frequency #86,577 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɔʁ.tɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "En Flandre française, valet de ferme. — (les Primes d’honneur, page 59, Paris, 1874)".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for corton, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is corton, spelled C-O-R-T-O-N.
Definition
- 1En Flandre française, valet de ferme. — (les Primes d’honneur, page 59, Paris, 1874)
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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