couraient
\ku.ʁɛ\
The verdict
“couraient” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #37,253. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #37,253
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait du verbe courir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-couraient · couraient · French
couraient · rank #37,253 · 12 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #37,253
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH coter
Nearest frequency peer: coter (-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 « couraient »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- correa
correa
62,751 corpus weight
- corso
corso
62,750 corpus weight
- coter
coter
62,749 corpus weight
- couraient
couraient
62,748 corpus weight
- Coutances
Coutances
62,746 corpus weight
- coïncident
coïncident
62,745 corpus weight
What this shows « couraient » 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 | couraient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ku.ʁɛ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #37,253 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « couraient »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around couraient (IPA \ku.ʁɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #37,253 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait du verbe courir.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for couraient, with forms such as "ccouraient", "coruaient", and "couarient". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "courant", "courent", "courait", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is couraient, spelled C-O-U-R-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait du verbe courir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how couraient appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Des bruits couraient ces jours-ci qu’une tentative de coup de force serait essayée par le Parti Socialiste Unifié bolchevisant le soir des Élections.
Une fois, j’avais même reçu une lance dans le bas du ventre. Heureusement, elle était ressortie par le côté. C’était au cours d’une rixe après boire, avec un Yao. Il descendait du nord pour vendre son ivoire à Lourenço Marques. Je m’étais moqué de ses scarifications qui couraient sur sa peau comme une longue procession de fourmis. Ce gars-là, on aurait di…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccouraient
- coruaient
- couarient
- couraeint
- couraiennt
- couraientt
- couraietn
- courainet
- couriaent
- courraient
- cuoraient
- ocuraient
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of couraient - 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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).