coteau
\kɔ.to\
The verdict
“coteau” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #31,905. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #31,905
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 19
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Colline peu élevée.
Corpus desk
Index FR-coteau · coteau · French
coteau · rank #31,905 · 6 variants · 19 confusables
- FREQ-MID #31,905
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 19 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH corridors
Nearest frequency peer: corridors (-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 « coteau »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Corinthe
Corinthe
68,099 corpus weight
- correspondr…
correspondrait
68,098 corpus weight
- corridors
corridors
68,097 corpus weight
- coteau
coteau
68,096 corpus weight
- coursier
coursier
68,095 corpus weight
- couturière
couturière
68,094 corpus weight
What this shows « coteau » 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 | coteau |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ.to\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #31,905 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 19 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « coteau »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around coteau (IPA \kɔ.to\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #31,905 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for coteau, with forms such as "coetau", "cotaeu", and "coteua". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 19 confusable-pair relationships, "côtes", "cotée", "coter", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is coteau, spelled C-O-T-E-A-U.
Definition
- 1Colline peu élevée.
- 2Colline plantée de vignes.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how coteau appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Devant eux, la route de Nice montait le versant opposé de la vallée ; mais ils ne pouvaient en voir qu’un bout assez court, car elle fait un coude brusque, à un demi-kilomètre du pont, et se perd entre des coteaux boisés.
Des landes et des coteaux calcaires ou marno-calcaires plus ou moins pâturés à flore xérothermique se rencontrent en différents points de la vallée de la Lanterne.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- coetau
- cotaeu
- coteua
- cotteau
- ctoeau
- octeau
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of coteau - 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 "coteau", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).