corvus
The verdict
“corvus” is uncommon French (frequency #88,492 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,492
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Corbeau.
Corpus desk
Index FR-corvus · corvus · French
corvus · rank #88,492 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,492
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH corticales
Nearest frequency peer: corticales (-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 « corvus »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- correia
correia
11,512 corpus weight
- Corrège
Corrège
11,511 corpus weight
- corticales
corticales
11,510 corpus weight
- corvus
corvus
11,509 corpus weight
- coréalisé
coréalisé
11,508 corpus weight
- coterie
coterie
11,507 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « corvus » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | corvus |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #88,492 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « corvus » en français
Rare enough to double-check
corvus is uncommon French at frequency #88,492 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for corvus in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is corvus, spelled C-O-R-V-U-S.
Definition
- 1Corbeau.
- 2Bec de corbeau, instrument de chirurgie.
- 3Grappin, croc, harpon, pince, corbeau démolisseur (une machine de guerre).
- 4Constellation du Corbeau.
- 5Corbeau marin (poisson).
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how corvus appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
picus et cornix ab laevā, corvus, parra ab dexterā consuadent
Synonyms
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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