Cournon
\kuʁ.nɔ̃\
The verdict
“Cournon” is uncommon French (frequency #80,086 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,086
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune française, située dans le département du Morbihan.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cournon · Cournon · French
Cournon · rank #80,086 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,086
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Courcouronnes
Nearest frequency peer: Courcouronnes (-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 « Cournon »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- coudonc
coudonc
19,918 corpus weight
- couic
couic
19,917 corpus weight
- Courcouronn…
Courcouronnes
19,916 corpus weight
- Cournon
Cournon
19,915 corpus weight
- couvres
couvres
19,913 corpus weight
- cracheur
cracheur
19,912 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Cournon » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Cournon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \kuʁ.nɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #80,086 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Cournon » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Cournon is uncommon French at frequency #80,086 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \kuʁ.nɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Cournon, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable 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 is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is Cournon, spelled C-O-U-R-N-O-N.
Definition
- 1Commune française, située dans le département du Morbihan.
- 2Synonyme de Cournon-d’Auvergne.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Cournon appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La paroisse de Cournon se cache au fond d’une riante vallée qu’arrose le lent et tortueux courant de la rivière d’Oust.
Les deux occupants d’une des voitures se sont retrouvés face à un homme âgé de 67 ans, près d’un distributeur de billets, sur le parking d’une banque, à Cournon.
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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