coriace
\kɔ.ʁjas\
The verdict
“coriace” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #28,895. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #28,895
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est dur comme du cuir, et difficile à mâcher, en parlant d'un aliment.
Corpus desk
Index FR-coriace · coriace · French
coriace · rank #28,895 · 9 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #28,895
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH corrigées
Nearest frequency peer: corrigées (+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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « coriace »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- contourne
contourne
71,109 corpus weight
- contraignan…
contraignante
71,108 corpus weight
- coriace
coriace
71,106 corpus weight
- corrigées
corrigées
71,105 corpus weight
- corvées
corvées
71,104 corpus weight
- couchage
couchage
71,103 corpus weight
What this shows « coriace » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | coriace |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kɔ.ʁjas\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #28,895 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « coriace »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around coriace (IPA \kɔ.ʁjas\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #28,895 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for coriace, with forms such as "ccoriace", "coirace", and "coraice". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "Corinne", "coriaces", "coince", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is coriace, spelled C-O-R-I-A-C-E.
Definition
- 1Qui est dur comme du cuir, et difficile à mâcher, en parlant d'un aliment.
- 2Se dit d'un feuillage raide, ayant la consistance du cuir, en parlant des plantes.
- 3Qui ne se laisse pas vaincre facilement.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how coriace appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Auparavant, il s’agissait du spécialiste de la viande de bouc, souvent salée et généralement coriace quand elle n'était pas exagérément odoriférante.
On considère souvent à tort ce champignon comme une clavaire ; il est de ce fait souvent consommé. Sa chair coriace est pourtant sans saveur et indigeste, mais elle ne provoque que rarement des malaises.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccoriace
- coirace
- coraice
- coriacce
- coriaec
- coricae
- corriace
- croiace
- ocriace
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of coriace - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).