country
\kun.tʁi\
The verdict
“country” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #9,298. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,298
- frequency rank, French
- 257,141
- “C” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Style de musique étatsunien à la rythmique traînante, sentimentale ou émouvante.
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 | country |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kun.tʁi\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #9,298 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “country” sits in French frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around country (IPA \kun.tʁi\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #9,298 among 257,141 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Style de musique étatsunien à la rythmique traînante, sentimentale ou émouvante.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for country, with forms such as "ccountry", "conutry", and "counntry". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "county", "count", "contre", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is country, spelled C-O-U-N-T-R-Y.
Definition
- 1Style de musique étatsunien à la rythmique traînante, sentimentale ou émouvante.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccountry
- conutry
- counntry
- counrty
- countrry
- countryy
- counttry
- countyr
- coutnry
- cuontry
- ocuntry
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of country - 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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Using “country”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is C-O-U-N-T-R-Y - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \kun.tʁi\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “county” - see the side-by-side comparison. country vs county
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.