couler
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#6,178
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
couler is aFrenchverb. It means: Se déverser, aller d’un endroit à un autre, en parlant des liquides. Pronounced \ku.le\. It ranks #6,178 in French word frequency. Often confused with cour and coupe.
| 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) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for couler is 6 letters long, classified as averb, 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 Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for couler, with forms such as "ccouler", "coluer", and "couelr". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "cour", "coupe", "coûte", 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 couler, spelled C-O-U-L-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccouler,coluer,couelr,coulerr,couller,coulre,cuoler,oculer
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for couler
Misspelling Variants of "couler"
Frequency rank: #6,178 in French
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