couloirs
\ku.lwaʁ\
The verdict
“couloirs” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #9,458. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,458
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de couloir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-couloirs · couloirs · French
couloirs · rank #9,458 · 11 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,458
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cordon
Nearest frequency peer: cordon (-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 « couloirs »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Constantino…
Constantinople
90,546 corpus weight
- consul
consul
90,545 corpus weight
- cordon
cordon
90,544 corpus weight
- couloirs
couloirs
90,543 corpus weight
- couru
couru
90,542 corpus weight
- coûteux
coûteux
90,541 corpus weight
What this shows « couloirs » 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 | couloirs |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ku.lwaʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #9,458 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « couloirs »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around couloirs (IPA \ku.lwaʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #9,458 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de couloir.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for couloirs, with forms such as "ccouloirs", "coluoirs", and "couliors". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "coulis", "couloir", "couleurs", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is couloirs, spelled C-O-U-L-O-I-R-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de couloir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how couloirs appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Arrivé à bon port — en nage, malgré l’air climatisé : cette humanité compactée produisait beaucoup de chaleur — vous n’aviez d’autre choix que de suivre, sans trop réfléchi, abandonnant déjà toute volonté de contrôler quoi que ce soit, le flux de la multitude sortant de la rame ; flux qui s’étalait d’abord en nappe, sur le quai et, se décompressant, se «…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccouloirs
- coluoirs
- couliors
- coulloirs
- couloirrs
- couloirss
- couloisr
- couloris
- couolirs
- cuoloirs
- oculoirs
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of couloirs - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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).