couchait

\ku.ʃɛ\

/\ku.ʃɛ\/ verb

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The verdict

“couchait” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #38,231. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#38,231
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords
11
tracked misspellings
10
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait de coucher.

Corpus desk

Index FR-couchait · couchait · French

couchait · rank #38,231 · 11 variants · 10 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #38,231
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
  • VAR-MID 11 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH corpulence

Nearest frequency peer: corpulence (-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 « couchait »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « couchait » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

couchait vs courait
75% similar
couchait vs coûtait
63% similar
couchait vs coulait
75% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for couchait
PropertyValue
Headwordcouchait
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\ku.ʃɛ\
Letters8
Frequency rank#38,231
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs10
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « couchait »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).couchaitse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « corpulence » (#38,230), « courtiser » (#38,232), « coptes » (#38,229). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « couchait » est au #38,231. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 11 spelling variants around couchait (IPA \ku.ʃɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #38,231 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait de coucher.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for couchait, with forms such as "ccouchait", "cocuhait", and "coucahit". 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 10 confusable-pair relationships, "courait", "coûtait", "coulait", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is couchait, spelled C-O-U-C-H-A-I-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait de coucher.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ccouchait
  • cocuhait
  • coucahit
  • coucchait
  • couchaitt
  • couchati
  • couchhait
  • couchiat
  • couhcait
  • cuochait
  • ocuchait

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of couchait - 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.

ccouchait1cocuhait2coucahit2coucchait1couchaitt1couchati2couchhait1couchiat2
Edit distance from "couchait"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "couchait"?
"couchait" is spelled C-O-U-C-H-A-I-T. The IPA pronunciation is \ku.ʃɛ\.
What does "couchait" mean?
As a verb, "couchait" means: Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait de coucher.
What words are commonly confused with "couchait"?
"couchait" is commonly confused with "courait", "coûtait", "coulait". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "couchait"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "couchait" is \ku.ʃɛ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "couchait" come from?
"couchait" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "couchait", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

cratères#38,233croquant#38,236doublant#38,250Dubreuil#38,251

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).

dessinait11 variantschaloupe11 variantsendettés11 variantsCaligula11 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list