costaud
\kɔs.to\
The verdict
“costaud” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #18,450. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #18,450
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fort, robuste, y compris moralement.
Corpus desk
Index FR-costaud · costaud · French
costaud · rank #18,450 · 10 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #18,450
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Corbeil
Nearest frequency peer: Corbeil (-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 « costaud »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- contrôlées
contrôlées
81,554 corpus weight
- convives
convives
81,553 corpus weight
- Corbeil
Corbeil
81,552 corpus weight
- costaud
costaud
81,551 corpus weight
- coudre
coudre
81,550 corpus weight
- cover
cover
81,549 corpus weight
What this shows « costaud » 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 | costaud |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kɔs.to\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #18,450 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « costaud »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around costaud (IPA \kɔs.to\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #18,450 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for costaud, with forms such as "ccostaud", "cosatud", and "cosstaud". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "costauds", "costa", "costard", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is costaud, spelled C-O-S-T-A-U-D.
Definition
- 1Fort, robuste, y compris moralement.
- 2Calé, compétent.
- 3Résistant, solide.
- 4Fort, raide en parlant de boissons alcoolisées.
- 5Intelligent, bien pensé.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how costaud appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C’était un petit homme dont le torse reposait avec force sur des jambes solides. Il se frappait la poitrine en disant : « Petit, mais costaud. »
Tu as pourtant l'air d'un gars costaud, un gars à qui on ne la fait pas, avec ton blouson, tes santiags et ta banane. Un vrai rocker…
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccostaud
- cosatud
- cosstaud
- costadu
- costaudd
- costtaud
- costuad
- cotsaud
- csotaud
- ocstaud
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of costaud - 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
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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 (10 here; floor ≥5).