courber
\kuʁ.be\
The verdict
“courber” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #46,681. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #46,681
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Rendre courbe.
Corpus desk
Index FR-courber · courber · French
courber · rank #46,681 · 10 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #46,681
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cotons
Nearest frequency peer: cotons (-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 « courber »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- corrélée
corrélée
53,323 corpus weight
- cosa
cosa
53,322 corpus weight
- cotons
cotons
53,321 corpus weight
- courber
courber
53,320 corpus weight
- courroies
courroies
53,319 corpus weight
- crevasse
crevasse
53,318 corpus weight
What this shows « courber » 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 | courber |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kuʁ.be\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #46,681 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « courber »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around courber (IPA \kuʁ.be\), averb. Corpus frequency is #46,681 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for courber, with forms such as "ccourber", "coruber", and "coubrer". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "course", "courte", "courir", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 courber, spelled C-O-U-R-B-E-R.
Definition
- 1Rendre courbe.
- 2Sécher les cours.
- 3Devenir courbe.
- 4Plier sous la volonté d’un autre, donner à quelqu’un des marques de soumission, de respect.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how courber appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
D’une grosseur appétissante, fermes et opaques, long-pendues en trochets bien fournis, elles courbaient les longues branches.
Une charge trop forte a courbé cette pièce de bois, cette poutre.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccourber
- coruber
- coubrer
- courbber
- courberr
- courbre
- courebr
- courrber
- cuorber
- ocurber
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of courber - 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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).