coulent
\kul\
The verdict
“coulent” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #20,680. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #20,680
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de couler.
Corpus desk
Index FR-coulent · coulent · French
coulent · rank #20,680 · 10 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #20,680
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH corporels
Nearest frequency peer: corporels (-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 « coulent »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- confrontati…
confrontations
79,324 corpus weight
- convoqués
convoqués
79,323 corpus weight
- corporels
corporels
79,322 corpus weight
- coulent
coulent
79,321 corpus weight
- courriels
courriels
79,320 corpus weight
- cowboys
cowboys
79,319 corpus weight
What this shows « coulent » 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 | coulent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kul\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #20,680 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « coulent »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around coulent (IPA \kul\), averb. Corpus frequency is #20,680 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for coulent, with forms such as "ccoulent", "coluent", and "couelnt". 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", "couler", "Coulon", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is coulent, spelled C-O-U-L-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de couler.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du subjonctif présent de couler.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how coulent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Tu te sens poussé en arrière, ou en avant, par un poing, ou plusieurs poings aux phalanges de métal, tu sautes en l’air, tu cabrioles, tu boules dans la poussière, une fleur acide, rouge, ronge ta chair, tes mains volent vers cette fleur qui croît sans cesse sur ta poitrine, sur ton ventre, pour l’arracher de ta peau, mais les pétales coulent entre tes do…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccoulent
- coluent
- couelnt
- coulennt
- coulentt
- couletn
- coullent
- coulnet
- cuolent
- oculent
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of coulent - 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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).