couloir

\ku.lwaʁ\

/\ku.lwaʁ\/ noun

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The verdict

“couloir” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #6,386. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#6,386
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords
9
tracked misspellings
9
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Passage long et étroit allant d’un point à un autre, dans un bâtiment, un train, etc.

Corpus desk

Index FR-couloir · couloir · French

couloir · rank #6,386 · 9 variants · 9 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #6,386
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
  • VAR-MID 9 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH costa

Nearest frequency peer: costa (-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 « couloir »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « couloir » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

couloir vs courir
71% similar
couloir vs Coulon
57% similar
couloir vs couvrir
71% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for couloir
PropertyValue
Headwordcouloir
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ku.lwaʁ\
Letters7
Frequency rank#6,386
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs9
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « couloir »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).couloirse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « costa » (#6,385), « créations » (#6,387), « conversion » (#6,384). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « couloir » est au #6,386. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 9 spelling variants around couloir (IPA \ku.lwaʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #6,386 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 9 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for couloir, with forms such as "ccouloir", "coluoir", and "coulior". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "courir", "Coulon", "couvrir", 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 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 couloir, spelled C-O-U-L-O-I-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    Passage long et étroit allant d’un point à un autre, dans un bâtiment, un train, etc.
  2. 2
    Passage long et étroit
  3. 3
    Bande étroite de territoire enclavé.
  4. 4
    Voie particulière, voire réservée.
  5. 5
    Bande délimitée et réservée à un participant.
  6. 6
    Zone latérale d'un terrain de sports où évolue un joueur assigné à un poste tel que celui d'ailier.
  7. 7
    Trajectoire possible pour un avion.
  8. 8
    Petite pelle de pesée utilisée pour prélever.
  9. 9
    Pièce de métal, servant à assurer l’étanchéité entre des tuiles et un mur ou le bord de la toiture.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how couloir appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Par un manque de chance pervers, il apparut à l'autre bout du couloir à l’instant où elle s’y précipitait, et il s'en fallut de peu qu'elle le percutât.
  2. Jour après jour, nous arpentons notre vie comme on arpente un couloir.

Synonyms

passagecorridor

This word in other languages

corridor(English)pasillo(Español)Flur(Deutsch)galeria(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ccouloir
  • coluoir
  • coulior
  • coulloir
  • couloirr
  • coulori
  • couolir
  • cuoloir
  • oculoir

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of couloir - 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.

ccouloir1coluoir2coulior2coulloir1couloirr1coulori2couolir2cuoloir2
Edit distance from "couloir"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "couloir"?
"couloir" is spelled C-O-U-L-O-I-R. The IPA pronunciation is \ku.lwaʁ\.
What does "couloir" mean?
As a noun, "couloir" means: Passage long et étroit allant d’un point à un autre, dans un bâtiment, un train, etc.
What words are commonly confused with "couloir"?
"couloir" is commonly confused with "courir", "Coulon", "couvrir". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "couloir"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "couloir" is \ku.lwaʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "couloir" come from?
"couloir" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "couloir", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

colline#6,382esclave#6,391charité#6,379finales#6,396

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).

bombes9 variantsassociée9 variantsisland9 variantslégion9 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list