Cosne
\kon\
The verdict
“Cosne” is uncommon French (frequency #69,725 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,725
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ancien nom de la commune française Cosne-sur-Loire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cosne · Cosne · French
Cosne · rank #69,725 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,725
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cosmic
Nearest frequency peer: cosmic (-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 « Cosne »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Coolidge
Coolidge
30,281 corpus weight
- cosmic
cosmic
30,277 corpus weight
- Cosne
Cosne
30,276 corpus weight
- coupaient
coupaient
30,275 corpus weight
- courbés
courbés
30,274 corpus weight
- Couvin
Couvin
30,272 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Cosne » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Cosne |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \kon\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #69,725 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Cosne » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Cosne is uncommon French at frequency #69,725 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \kon\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Ancien nom de la commune française Cosne-sur-Loire.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Cosne, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is Cosne, spelled C-O-S-N-E.
Definition
- 1Ancien nom de la commune française Cosne-sur-Loire.
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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