couches

Name: couches, French Word Data
Creator: Wiktionary
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

\kuʃ\

/\kuʃ\/ noun

By PlainSpell · According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA) · analyzed September 3, 2026

The verdict

“couches” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #4,742. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#4,742
frequency rank, French: 8,609
“C” headwords: 10
tracked misspellings: 20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Temps pendant lequel une femme demeure au lit à cause de l’enfantement.

Corpus desk

Index FR-couches · couches · French

couches · rank #4,742 · 10 variants · 20 confusables

FREQ-COMMON #4,742
LEN-LONG 7 letters
VOW-3 3 vowels
CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
VAR-MID 10 variants
BOOK-DENSE 8,609
PHOTO-FINISH conte

Nearest frequency peer: conte (-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.

connaissais

95,262
contacter

95,261
conte

95,260
couches

95,259
Cris

95,258
culturelles

95,257

What this shows « couches » 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).

couches vs coupes

71% similar

couches vs coudes

71% similar

couches vs cruche

71% similar

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

Key facts for couches
Property	Value
Headword	couches
Language	French
Part of speech	Noun
IPA	\kuʃ\
Letters	7
Frequency rank	#4,742
Misspellings tracked	10
Confusable pairs	20
Source	Wiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « couches »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).couchesse place ici:

#4,742

#1#100#1K#10K#100K

← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « conte » (#4,741), « Cris » (#4,743), « contacter » (#4,740). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « couches » est au #4,742. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 10 spelling variants around couches (IPA \kuʃ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #4,742 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Temps pendant lequel une femme demeure au lit à cause de l’enfantement.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for couches, with forms such as "ccouches", "cocuhes", and "coucches". 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, "coupes", "coudes", "cruche", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is couches, spelled C-O-U-C-H-E-S.

Definition

1
Temps pendant lequel une femme demeure au lit à cause de l’enfantement.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how couches appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

Mes frères portaient le prénom de cousins tués à la guerre et ma mère elle-même tenait le sien d’une cousine morte en couches, qu’elle n’avait pas connue.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

ccouches
cocuhes
coucches
coucehs
couchess
couchhes
couchse
couhces
cuoches
ocuches

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of couches - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

Edit distance from "couches"

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 "couches"?

"couches" is spelled C-O-U-C-H-E-S. The IPA pronunciation is \kuʃ\.

What does "couches" mean?

As a noun, "couches" means: Temps pendant lequel une femme demeure au lit à cause de l’enfantement.

What words are commonly confused with "couches"?

"couches" is commonly confused with "coupes", "coudes", "cruche". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.

How do you pronounce "couches"?

The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "couches" is \kuʃ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.

What language does "couches" come from?

"couches" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.

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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).

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