couac
\kwak\
The verdict
“couac” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #47,261. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #47,261
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Onomatopée qui s’emploie pour désigner une fausse note rendue par une voix ou par un instrument de musique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-couac · couac · French
couac · rank #47,261 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #47,261
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cortisone
Nearest frequency peer: cortisone (-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 « couac »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- corrigent
corrigent
52,743 corpus weight
- corrompt
corrompt
52,742 corpus weight
- cortisone
cortisone
52,741 corpus weight
- couac
couac
52,740 corpus weight
- couillons
couillons
52,739 corpus weight
- count
count
52,738 corpus weight
What this shows « couac » 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 | couac |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kwak\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #47,261 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « couac »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around couac (IPA \kwak\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #47,261 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for couac, with forms such as "ccouac", "coauc", and "couacc". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "coup", "cour", "coût", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is couac, spelled C-O-U-A-C.
Definition
- 1Onomatopée qui s’emploie pour désigner une fausse note rendue par une voix ou par un instrument de musique.
- 2Faux pas ; maladresse.
- 3Augmentation brutale et non prévisible de la fréquence de récurrence des impulsions émises par un pulsar, perturbant temporairement la lente décroissance de cette fréquence.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how couac appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Couac ! Couac !… Ah ! le terrible couac ! Car vous pensez bien qu’il ne faut parler de crapaud qu’au figuré. On ne le voyait pas mais, par l’enfer ! on l’entendait. Couac ! — (Gaston Leroux, Le Fantôme de l'Opéra, 1910) #* Que témoignent toutes ces têtes autour de moi, tous ces agglomérés humains, […], promenant leur bilan mortel, leurs chansons qui font…
Érato s’apprête donc à s’emparer de la lyre pour chanter lorsqu’Euterpe la retient : la lyre n’est pas l’instrument qui lui convient, elle appartient à la muse de la poésie et Érato ne saurait en tirer que des couacs : […].
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccouac
- coauc
- couacc
- couca
- cuoac
- ocuac
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of couac - 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 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).