coulis
\ku.li\
The verdict
“coulis” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #43,366. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #43,366
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui coule. N’est plus usité que dans la locution : Vent coulis : vent qui coule, qui se glisse au travers des fentes et des trous.
Corpus desk
Index FR-coulis · coulis · French
coulis · rank #43,366 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #43,366
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cotte
Nearest frequency peer: cotte (-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 « coulis »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- corners
corners
56,638 corpus weight
- corrosif
corrosif
56,637 corpus weight
- cotte
cotte
56,636 corpus weight
- coulis
coulis
56,635 corpus weight
- Cousteau
Cousteau
56,634 corpus weight
- crapule
crapule
56,633 corpus weight
What this shows « coulis » 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 | coulis |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ku.li\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #43,366 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « coulis »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around coulis (IPA \ku.li\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #43,366 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qui coule. N’est plus usité que dans la locution : Vent coulis : vent qui coule, qui se glisse au travers des fentes et des trous.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for coulis, with forms such as "ccoulis", "coluis", and "couils". 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, "culs", "cous", "cours", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is coulis, spelled C-O-U-L-I-S.
Definition
- 1Qui coule. N’est plus usité que dans la locution : Vent coulis : vent qui coule, qui se glisse au travers des fentes et des trous.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how coulis appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’espace n’était pas immense, et quelques vents coulis, qui avaient, quoique au cœur de l’été, des fraîcheurs de novembre, passaient bien par les fentes de la toile et les interstices laissés au ras du sol.
Une affreuse odeur de putréfaction végétale régnait, des vents coulis leur soufflaient dans la nuque, ce qui fit penser à Tom que c'était là l'atmosphère rêvée pour guérir son rhume.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccoulis
- coluis
- couils
- couliss
- coullis
- coulsi
- cuolis
- oculis
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of coulis - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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