coryza
\kɔ.ʁi.za\
The verdict
“coryza” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 6
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Synonyme de rhume de cerveau.
Corpus desk
Index FR-coryza · coryza · French
coryza · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "C" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | coryza |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ.ʁi.za\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
coryza is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɔ.ʁi.za\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for coryza, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is coryza, spelled C-O-R-Y-Z-A.
Definition
- 1Synonyme de rhume de cerveau.
- 2Maladie respiratoire causée en général par un virus herpèsvirus, un calicivirus, une bactérie Chlamydophila felis ou une bactérie pasteurelle. Rhume pouvant évoluer vers une broncho-pneumonie, parfois mortelle, et pouvant s'accompagner d'ulcères et d'abcès cutanés.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how coryza appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Homais demanda la permission de garder son bonnet grec, de peur des coryzas.
Quant aux faiseurs de vers, ces vauriens, ces maroufles, Ces fainéants barbus, mal peignés, il les a Plus en horreur que son éternel coryza, Et le printemps en fleur brille sur ses pantoufles.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.