costard
\kɔs.taʁ\
The verdict
“costard” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #18,971. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #18,971
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Costume d’homme, complet-veston.
Corpus desk
Index FR-costard · costard · French
costard · rank #18,971 · 11 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #18,971
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH coordinateur
Nearest frequency peer: coordinateur (-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 « costard »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- constructive
constructive
81,033 corpus weight
- convalescen…
convalescence
81,032 corpus weight
- coordinateur
coordinateur
81,031 corpus weight
- costard
costard
81,030 corpus weight
- coulée
coulée
81,029 corpus weight
- coupent
coupent
81,028 corpus weight
What this shows « costard » 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 | costard |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔs.taʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #18,971 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « costard »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around costard (IPA \kɔs.taʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #18,971 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for costard, with forms such as "ccostard", "cosatrd", and "cosstard". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "costaud", "costauds", "costa", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is costard, spelled C-O-S-T-A-R-D.
Definition
- 1Costume d’homme, complet-veston.
- 2Personne vêtue d’un complet, particulièrement un supérieur hiérarchique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how costard appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Parce que j’aime autant vous dire que pour moi Monsieur Éric avec ses costards tissés en Écosse à Roubaix, ses boutons de manchettes en simili et ses pompes à l’italienne fabriquées à Grenoble, et ben c’est rien qu’un demi-sel.
Au restaurant, on me regarde avec effroi et puis tout de suite après avec un intérêt qui se transforme en curiosité malsaine, et finalement, j’aurais dû mettre un costard, parce que tous les nerds, les has been, les déclassés en portent pour se faire remarquer ce qui en fait le meilleur moyen de ne pas se faire remarquer.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccostard
- cosatrd
- cosstard
- costadr
- costardd
- costarrd
- costrad
- costtard
- cotsard
- csotard
- ocstard
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of costard - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "costard", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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 (11 here; floor ≥5).