count
\kaʊnt\
The verdict
“count” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #47,263. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #47,263
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Compte, action de compter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-count · count · French
count · rank #47,263 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #47,263
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH couillons
Nearest frequency peer: couillons (-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 « count »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- corrompt
corrompt
52,742 corpus weight
- cortisone
cortisone
52,741 corpus weight
- couac
couac
52,740 corpus weight
- couillons
couillons
52,739 corpus weight
- count
count
52,738 corpus weight
- courson
courson
52,735 corpus weight
What this shows « count » 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 | count |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kaʊnt\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #47,263 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « count »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around count (IPA \kaʊnt\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #47,263 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for count, with forms such as "ccount", "counnt", and "countt". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "cut", "coup", "cour", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is count, spelled C-O-U-N-T.
Definition
- 1Compte, action de compter.
- 2Comte.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccount
- counnt
- countt
- coutn
- cuont
- ocunt
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of count - 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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).