courantes
\ku.ʁɑ̃t\
The verdict
“courantes” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #11,201. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #11,201
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin pluriel de courant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-courantes · courantes · French
courantes · rank #11,201 · 13 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #11,201
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH corrigé
Nearest frequency peer: corrigé (-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 « courantes »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- continents
continents
88,803 corpus weight
- contradicto…
contradictoires
88,802 corpus weight
- corrigé
corrigé
88,801 corpus weight
- courantes
courantes
88,800 corpus weight
- Cédric
Cédric
88,799 corpus weight
- dentiste
dentiste
88,798 corpus weight
What this shows « courantes » 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 | courantes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ku.ʁɑ̃t\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #11,201 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « courantes »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around courantes (IPA \ku.ʁɑ̃t\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #11,201 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Féminin pluriel de courant.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for courantes, with forms such as "ccourantes", "coruantes", and "couarntes". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "courtes", "courants", "couronnés", 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 is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is courantes, spelled C-O-U-R-A-N-T-E-S.
Definition
- 1Féminin pluriel de courant.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how courantes appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Appartenant à la famille des rutacées, le genre citrus, né en Sud-Est asiatique, est à l’origine des quatre espèces (mandariniers, pamplemoussiers, cédratiers et un papeda) les plus courantes sur nos étals : orangers, citronniers, limettiers et pomelos.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccourantes
- coruantes
- couarntes
- couranets
- couranntes
- courantess
- courantse
- couranttes
- couratnes
- cournates
- courrantes
- cuorantes
- ocurantes
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of courantes - 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 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).