couchant
The verdict
“couchant” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #22,220. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #22,220
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui se couche.
Corpus desk
Index FR-couchant · couchant · French
couchant · rank #22,220 · 12 variants · 10 confusables
- FREQ-MID #22,220
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH corbeille
Nearest frequency peer: corbeille (-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 « couchant »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- constatées
constatées
77,784 corpus weight
- constituaie…
constituaient
77,783 corpus weight
- corbeille
corbeille
77,782 corpus weight
- couchant
couchant
77,781 corpus weight
- crotte
crotte
77,780 corpus weight
- cutanée
cutanée
77,778 corpus weight
What this shows « couchant » 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 | couchant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #22,220 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « couchant »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around couchant, anadjective. Corpus frequency is #22,220 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for couchant, with forms such as "ccouchant", "cocuhant", and "coucahnt". 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, "courant", "coupant", "coulant", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is couchant, spelled C-O-U-C-H-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui se couche.
- 2Se dit du soleil, figuré ou non, représenté incomplet et posé en pointe, masqué en partie ou mouvant du flanc senestre de l’écu, pièce, meuble ou division.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how couchant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le fleuve qui nous entraînait, coulait entre de hautes falaises, au bout desquelles on apercevait le soleil couchant.
Peu de spectacles, en Europe, dépassent en grandeur celui qu'on découvre de Honfleur quand le soleil couchant, de ses flammes marines, éclaire jusqu'en ses profondeurs l'estuaire de la Seine.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccouchant
- cocuhant
- coucahnt
- coucchant
- couchannt
- couchantt
- couchatn
- couchhant
- couchnat
- couhcant
- cuochant
- ocuchant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of couchant - 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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).