courageuse
\ku.ʁa.ʒøz\
The verdict
“courageuse” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #14,003. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,003
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de courageux.
Corpus desk
Index FR-courageuse · courageuse · French
courageuse · rank #14,003 · 13 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,003
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH couille
Nearest frequency peer: couille (-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 « courageuse »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- cor
cor
86,001 corpus weight
- corresponda…
correspondants
86,000 corpus weight
- couille
couille
85,999 corpus weight
- courageuse
courageuse
85,998 corpus weight
- culinaire
culinaire
85,996 corpus weight
- cuve
cuve
85,995 corpus weight
What this shows « courageuse » 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 | courageuse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ku.ʁa.ʒøz\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #14,003 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « courageuse »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around courageuse (IPA \ku.ʁa.ʒøz\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #14,003 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Féminin singulier de courageux.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for courageuse, with forms such as "ccourageuse", "coruageuse", and "couargeuse". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "courageux", "courageuses", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is courageuse, spelled C-O-U-R-A-G-E-U-S-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de courageux.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccourageuse
- coruageuse
- couargeuse
- couraeguse
- couragesue
- courageues
- courageusse
- couraggeuse
- couraguese
- courgaeuse
- courrageuse
- cuorageuse
- ocurageuse
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of courageuse - 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 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).