courage
\ku.ʁaʒ\
The verdict
“courage” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #1,408. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,408
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Capacité d'un humain ou un autre animal de vaincre sa peur pour braver le danger, supporter la souffrance, entreprendre des choses effrayantes, douloureuses ou difficiles.
Corpus desk
Index FR-courage · courage · French
courage · rank #1,408 · 9 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,408
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH accident
Nearest frequency peer: accident (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “courage”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- tribunal
tribunal
98,596 corpus weight
- accident
accident
98,594 corpus weight
- courage
courage
98,593 corpus weight
- dites
dites
98,592 corpus weight
- entrer
entrer
98,591 corpus weight
- envoyé
envoyé
98,590 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “courage” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | courage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ku.ʁaʒ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #1,408 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “courage” sits in French frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around courage (IPA \ku.ʁaʒ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #1,408 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for courage, with forms such as "ccourage", "coruage", and "couarge". 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, "course", "courte", "courbe", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is courage, spelled C-O-U-R-A-G-E.
Definition
- 1Capacité d'un humain ou un autre animal de vaincre sa peur pour braver le danger, supporter la souffrance, entreprendre des choses effrayantes, douloureuses ou difficiles.
- 2(Moderne) Capacité de ne pas avoir peur, face à une situation potentiellement effrayante (contraster avec sens nᵒ 1)
- 3Personnes courageuses.
- 4Dureté de cœur.
- 5Capacité d'agir, de se donner à ce qu'on fait ou doit faire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how courage appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le courage, ce n’est pas de laisser aux mains de la force la solution des conflits que la raison peut résoudre ; car le courage est l’exaltation de l’homme et ceci en est l’abdication. Le courage pour vous tous, courage de toutes les heures, c'est de supporter sans fléchir les épreuves de tout ordre, physiques et morales, que prodigue la vie. Le courage,…
Ce ne sont pas des considérations sur l’harmonie de l’Univers (même en personnifiant l’Univers), qui pourront donner aux hommes ce courage que Renan comparait à celui que possède le soldat montant à l’assaut.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccourage
- coruage
- couarge
- couraeg
- couragge
- courgae
- courrage
- cuorage
- ocurage
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of courage - 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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of September 3, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "courage", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).
What to do next
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- "courage" maps to 20 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "course". View pair
- 9 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #1,408 among French headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
- Browse more French words in the "C" letter cohort. C–Z browse
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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.