coulant

\ku.lɑ̃\

/\ku.lɑ̃\/ adj

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The verdict

“coulant” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #24,167. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#24,167
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords
10
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui coule aisément.

Corpus desk

Index FR-coulant · coulant · French

coulant · rank #24,167 · 10 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #24,167
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 10 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH courez

Nearest frequency peer: courez (+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 « coulant »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « coulant » 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).

coulant vs count
71% similar
coulant vs Coulon
57% similar
coulant vs courant
86% similar

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

Key facts for coulant
PropertyValue
Headwordcoulant
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\ku.lɑ̃\
Letters7
Frequency rank#24,167
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « coulant »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.coulantse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « courez » (#24,168), « coordonnée » (#24,165), « crush » (#24,169). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « coulant » est au #24,167. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 10 spelling variants around coulant (IPA \ku.lɑ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #24,167 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 6 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for coulant, with forms such as "ccoulant", "coluant", and "coualnt". 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, "count", "Coulon", "courant", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is coulant, spelled C-O-U-L-A-N-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Qui coule aisément.
  2. 2
    Qui est fait aisément, naturellement, qui ne sent pas le travail.
  3. 3
    Qualifie un vin agréable à boire et qui passe aisément.
  4. 4
    Qui procède par des courbes légères et qui est plus facile que correct.
  5. 5
    Qualifie une personne qui est accommodante en matière d’intérêt.
  6. 6
    Glissant.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Style coulant.
  2. Vers coulants.

This word in other languages

laid back(English)kulant(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ccoulant
  • coluant
  • coualnt
  • coulannt
  • coulantt
  • coulatn
  • coullant
  • coulnat
  • cuolant
  • oculant

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

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

ccoulant1coluant2coualnt2coulannt1coulantt1coulatn2coullant1coulnat2
Edit distance from "coulant"

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 "coulant"?
"coulant" is spelled C-O-U-L-A-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is \ku.lɑ̃\.
What does "coulant" mean?
As an adjective, "coulant" means: Qui coule aisément.
What words are commonly confused with "coulant"?
"coulant" is commonly confused with "count", "Coulon", "courant". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "coulant"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "coulant" is \ku.lɑ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "coulant" come from?
"coulant" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

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

Collard#24,156Cicéron#24,150débâcle#24,186chilien#24,146

Similar misspelling depth

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

césars10 variantsclercs10 variantsdécris10 variantsbiberon10 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list