couchent
\kuʃ\
The verdict
“couchent” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #27,758. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #27,758
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 18
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de coucher.
Corpus desk
Index FR-couchent · couchent · French
couchent · rank #27,758 · 12 variants · 18 confusables
- FREQ-MID #27,758
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 18 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cotation
Nearest frequency peer: cotation (-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 « couchent »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- corvette
corvette
72,245 corpus weight
- cotation
cotation
72,244 corpus weight
- couchent
couchent
72,243 corpus weight
- Courbevoie
Courbevoie
72,242 corpus weight
- cuillères
cuillères
72,241 corpus weight
- césarienne
césarienne
72,240 corpus weight
What this shows « couchent » 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 | couchent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kuʃ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #27,758 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 18 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « couchent »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around couchent (IPA \kuʃ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #27,758 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 couchent, with forms such as "ccouchent", "cocuhent", and "coucchent". 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 18 confusable-pair relationships, "coucher", "couches", "couvent", 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 pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is couchent, spelled C-O-U-C-H-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de coucher.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du subjonctif présent de coucher.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how couchent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Tout ça pour dire que, contrairement aux courageux capitaines d'industrie qui se couchent tard et dont les ouvriers se lèvent tôt, la vedette se détorchonne honteusement tard, laissant son ange gardien disposer de ses huit heures de sommeil réparateur.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccouchent
- cocuhent
- coucchent
- coucehnt
- couchennt
- couchentt
- couchetn
- couchhent
- couchnet
- couhcent
- cuochent
- ocuchent
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of couchent - 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
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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).