couette
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#15,348
in French word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
19
similar word pairs
couette is aFrenchnoun. It means: Sac de tissu rempli de plumes et servant (rarement) de matelas ou (le plus souvent) d’édredon. Pronounced \kwɛt\. Often confused with coûte and courte.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | couette |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kwɛt\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #15,348 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 19 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for couette is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kwɛt\. Corpus data places it at rank #15,348 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for couette, with forms such as "ccouette", "coeutte", and "couete". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 19 confusable-pair relationships, "coûte", "courte", "cuvette", 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 spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is couette, spelled C-O-U-E-T-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Sac de tissu rempli de plumes et servant (rarement) de matelas ou (le plus souvent) d’édredon.
- 2Pièce sur laquelle pose et pivote l’arbre d’une machine, le pivot d’un gond, crapaudine.
- 3Glissière permettant la mise à l’eau d’un navire, impliquant des couettes vives et des couettes mortes.
- 4Nom vulgaire de la mouette → voir eider et édredon.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccouette,coeutte,couete,couetet,coutete,cuoette,ocuette
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for couette
Misspelling Variants of "couette"
Frequency rank: #15,348 in French
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