Coulon

name

By · According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA) ·

The verdict

“Coulon” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #46,091. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#46,091
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords
8
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune française, située dans le département des Deux-Sèvres.

Corpus desk

Index FR-coulon · Coulon · French

Coulon · rank #46,091 · 8 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #46,091
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 8 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH cotta

Nearest frequency peer: cotta (-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 « Coulon »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « Coulon » 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).

Coulon vs culot
50% similar
Coulon vs Cousin
67% similar
Coulon vs coupon
67% similar

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

Key facts for Coulon
PropertyValue
HeadwordCoulon
LanguageFrench
Part of speechProper noun
Letters6
Frequency rank#46,091
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Coulon »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.Coulonse place ici:

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

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « cotta » (#46,090), « CPF » (#46,092), « corrompues » (#46,089). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « Coulon » est au #46,091. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 8 spelling variants around Coulon, aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #46,091 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for Coulon, with forms such as "ccoulon", "coluon", and "coullon". 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, "culot", "Cousin", "coupon", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is Coulon, spelled C-O-U-L-O-N.

Definition

  1. 1
    Commune française, située dans le département des Deux-Sèvres.
  2. 2
    Hameau de la commune de Sementron.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Brigitte, qui habite près de Coulon dans les Deux-Sèvres s’inquiète.
  2. Tout d'abord, s'il y avait eu quarante mille tués du seul côté de Lothaire et de Pépin, cela supposerait un total d'une centaine de milliers de combattants : comment auraient-ils pu tenir ensemble dans le petit espace circonscrit par les villages de Fontenoy, Levis, Sementron et Coulon ?

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ccoulon
  • coluon
  • coullon
  • coulno
  • coulonn
  • couoln
  • cuolon
  • oculon

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Coulon - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

ccoulon1coluon2coullon1coulno2coulonn1couoln2cuolon2oculon2
Edit distance from "Coulon"

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 "Coulon"?
"Coulon" is spelled C-O-U-L-O-N.
What does "Coulon" mean?
As a proper noun, "Coulon" means: Commune française, située dans le département des Deux-Sèvres.
What words are commonly confused with "Coulon"?
"Coulon" is commonly confused with "culot", "Cousin", "coupon". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "Coulon" come from?
"Coulon" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
Is PlainSpell free to use?
Yes, PlainSpell is a completely free word reference. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, confusable pairs, homophones, and spelling corrections across 5 languages without any sign-up or subscription.

Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

damage#46,096dinamo#46,108dolmen#46,113donkey#46,114

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).

dallage8 variantsElvira8 variantsennuyée8 variantsbougon8 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list