couchée
\ku.ʃe\
The verdict
“couchée” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #17,398. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #17,398
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 17
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Lieu où on loge la nuit en faisant voyage.
Corpus desk
Index FR-couchee · couchée · French
couchée · rank #17,398 · 10 variants · 17 confusables
- FREQ-MID #17,398
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 17 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cortex
Nearest frequency peer: cortex (-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 « couchée »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- correctionn…
correctionnel
82,606 corpus weight
- corresponda…
correspondait
82,605 corpus weight
- cortex
cortex
82,604 corpus weight
- couchée
couchée
82,603 corpus weight
- critiquée
critiquée
82,602 corpus weight
- crucifix
crucifix
82,601 corpus weight
What this shows « couchée » 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 | couchée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ku.ʃe\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #17,398 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 17 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « couchée »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around couchée (IPA \ku.ʃe\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #17,398 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for couchée, with forms such as "ccouchée", "cocuhée", and "coucchée". 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 17 confusable-pair relationships, "coupée", "coulée", "cruche", 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 is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is couchée, spelled C-O-U-C-H-É-E.
Definition
- 1Lieu où on loge la nuit en faisant voyage.
- 2Souper et logement des voyageurs dans l’hôtellerie.
- 3Moment où l’on se couche.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how couchée appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Écris-moi de ta dernière couchée.
Le paysage, lorsqu’on part d’Olmedo, n’offre pas grande variété : seulement je remarquai, avant d’arriver à la couchée, un admirable effet de soleil.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccouchée
- cocuhée
- coucchée
- couchee
- coucheé
- couchhée
- coucéhe
- couhcée
- cuochée
- ocuchée
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of couchée - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 "couchée", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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).