coudre

\kudʁ\

/\kudʁ\/ verb

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The verdict

“coudre” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #18,451. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#18,451
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords
8
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Assembler deux ou plusieurs objets avec un fil passé dans une aiguille ou un autre instrument semblable.

Corpus desk

Index FR-coudre · coudre · French

coudre · rank #18,451 · 8 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #18,451
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 8 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH costaud

Nearest frequency peer: costaud (-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 « coudre »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « coudre » 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).

coudre vs cour
67% similar
coudre vs cure
67% similar
coudre vs cours
67% similar

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

Key facts for coudre
PropertyValue
Headwordcoudre
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\kudʁ\
Letters6
Frequency rank#18,451
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « coudre »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).coudrese 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 « costaud » (#18,450), « cover » (#18,452), « Corbeil » (#18,449). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « coudre » est au #18,451. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 8 spelling variants around coudre (IPA \kudʁ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #18,451 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 6 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for coudre, with forms such as "ccoudre", "codure", and "couddre". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "cour", "cure", "cours", 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, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is coudre, spelled C-O-U-D-R-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Assembler deux ou plusieurs objets avec un fil passé dans une aiguille ou un autre instrument semblable.
  2. 2
    Surtout en parlant des ouvrages de l’esprit.
  3. 3
    …
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  5. 5
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Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Enfin, derrière un haillon mal tiré, des ouvrières en chambre cousent à la machine, tandis qu’à un autre étage, un vieillard rafistole avec des ficelles une capote de soldat.
  2. Plus d’une fois, je suis resté attendri, songeant à de délicieux moments : soit que je revisse cette délicieuse fille assise près de ma table, occupée à coudre, paisible, silencieuse, recueillie et faiblement éclairée par le jour qui, descendant de ma lucarne, dessinait de légers reflets argentés sur sa belle chevelure noire; soit que j’entendisse son rir…

Synonyms

tirer l’aiguille

This word in other languages

sew(English)coser(Español)nähen(Deutsch)coser(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ccoudre
  • codure
  • couddre
  • couder
  • coudrre
  • courde
  • cuodre
  • ocudre

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

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

ccoudre1codure2couddre1couder2coudrre1courde2cuodre2ocudre2
Edit distance from "coudre"

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 "coudre"?
"coudre" is spelled C-O-U-D-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is \kudʁ\.
What does "coudre" mean?
As a verb, "coudre" means: Assembler deux ou plusieurs objets avec un fil passé dans une aiguille ou un autre instrument semblable.
What words are commonly confused with "coudre"?
"coudre" is commonly confused with "cour", "cure", "cours". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "coudre"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "coudre" is \kudʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "coudre" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

connut#18,445comtés#18,441dureté#18,464butler#18,422

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).

Cathy8 variantsbrefs8 variantsbourrée8 variantsbosch8 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list