couleurs
\ku.lœʁ\
The verdict
“couleurs” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #1,436. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,436
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 11
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de couleur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-couleurs · couleurs · French
couleurs · rank #1,436 · 11 variants · 11 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,436
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 11 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH coin
Nearest frequency peer: coin (-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 « couleurs »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- chat
chat
98,568 corpus weight
- chiffres
chiffres
98,567 corpus weight
- coin
coin
98,566 corpus weight
- couleurs
couleurs
98,565 corpus weight
- el
el
98,564 corpus weight
- faudrait
faudrait
98,563 corpus weight
What this shows « couleurs » 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 | couleurs |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ku.lœʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #1,436 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « couleurs »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around couleurs (IPA \ku.lœʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #1,436 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for couleurs, with forms such as "ccouleurs", "colueurs", and "couelurs". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 11 confusable-pair relationships, "coureur", "coureurs", "couloirs", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is couleurs, spelled C-O-U-L-E-U-R-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de couleur.
- 2Synonyme de drapeau. S’emploie uniquement au pluriel dans ce sens.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how couleurs appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le moindre cacographe est membre d’une société savante, et ceux qui ne savent rien ou ne peuvent pas écrire comptent les fontaines de Paris, examinent les couleurs des numéros que le préfet impose aux maisons, et se prétendent occupés de statistique ; car la statistique est devenue à la mode, et c’est une position que de statistiquer.
Ces mœurs n’étaient que celles d’une classe. La bourgeoisie qui ne se battait pas et osait vivre de commerce dans d’obscures boutiques était méprisée ; ses vêtements sombres attestaient l’humilité de sa condition ; les guerriers, eux, éblouissaient les petites gens de leurs vêtements aux couleurs éclatantes.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccouleurs
- colueurs
- couelurs
- coulerus
- couleurrs
- couleurss
- couleusr
- coulleurs
- couluers
- cuoleurs
- oculeurs
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of couleurs - 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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).