couler
\ku.le\
The verdict
“couler” is a regularly-used French word, ranked #6,178 in French word frequency and used as a verb.
- #6,178
- frequency rank, French
- 6
- letters
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Se déverser, aller d’un endroit à un autre, en parlant des liquides.
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 | couler |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ku.le\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #6,178 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “couler” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for couler is 6 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ku.le\. Corpus data places it at rank #6,178 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. Wiktionary records 19 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for couler, with forms such as "ccouler", "coluer", and "couelr". 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", "coupe", "coûte", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
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. The correct French form is couler, spelled C-O-U-L-E-R.
Definition
- 1Se déverser, aller d’un endroit à un autre, en parlant des liquides.
- 2Laisser échapper un liquide.
- 3Glisser.
- 4Descendre insensiblement au fond de l’eau.
- 5Se passer paisiblement, sans secousse.
- 6Maigrir de manière importante en peu de temps.
- 7Faire passer un liquide d’un lieu dans un autre.
- 8Faire passer un liquide à travers un linge.
- 9Verser un solide fondu dans un moule.
- 10Faire passer insensiblement d’un lieu dans un autre.
- 11Exécuter quelque chose avec grâce, comme en glissant.
- 12Pousser une bille sur une autre de manière à la mettre à sa place sans secousse.
- 13Passer paisiblement, sans secousse.
- 14Faire sombrer un navire, naufrager, saborder.
- 15Rater, échouer, en parlant d'une examen, d'un test.
- 16Éteindre un four verrier.
- 17Ruiner, conduire à la faillite.
- 18Transmettre officieusement ou anonymement une information.
- 19Passer d’un lieu dans un autre sans faire de bruit, pour éviter d’être aperçu.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccouler,coluer,couelr,coulerr,couller,coulre,cuoler,oculer
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of couler - 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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Using “couler”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is C-O-U-L-E-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ku.le\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “cour” - see the side-by-side comparison. couler vs cour
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.