Which to use
“corne” is a noun and “cotée” is an adjective - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #12,941
- “corne” frequency rank
- #22,815
- “cotée” frequency rank
- 35756
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | corne | cotée |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Excroissance dure qui pousse sur le front des ruminants, sur le nez du rhinocéros. | Féminin singulier de coté. |
Where the eye mixes corne and cotée
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 3 letters in sequence.
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: corne is \kɔʁn\ while cotée is \kɔ.te\. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions, and the parts of speech differ too (noun vs adjective), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 35756, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
corne is recorded at frequency rank #12,941, classified as anoun, pronounced \kɔʁn\. cotée is at rank #22,815, tagged as anadj, pronounced \kɔ.te\.
Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.
With a confusion score of 35756, this pair ranks #274,473 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of corne vs cotée
Shared letters: ceo. Private to "corne": nr. Private to "cotée": té.
"corne" · 5 letters · shape CVCCV · "cotée" · 5 letters · shape CVCVV
Known mistypes of this pair
- corne ← ccorne · conre · coren · cornne · corrne · crone · ocrne