courgette
\kuʁ.ʒɛt\
The verdict
“courgette” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #32,766. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #32,766
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variété de plante de l’espèce Cucurbita pepo.
Corpus desk
Index FR-courgette · courgette · French
courgette · rank #32,766 · 11 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #32,766
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Corsica
Nearest frequency peer: Corsica (-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 « courgette »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- consultante
consultante
67,238 corpus weight
- Cornelius
Cornelius
67,237 corpus weight
- Corsica
Corsica
67,236 corpus weight
- courgette
courgette
67,235 corpus weight
- cravates
cravates
67,234 corpus weight
- creusement
creusement
67,232 corpus weight
What this shows « courgette » 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 | courgette |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kuʁ.ʒɛt\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #32,766 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « courgette »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around courgette (IPA \kuʁ.ʒɛt\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #32,766 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for courgette, with forms such as "ccourgette", "corugette", and "cougrette". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "courgettes", "couette", "corvette", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is courgette, spelled C-O-U-R-G-E-T-T-E.
Definition
- 1Variété de plante de l’espèce Cucurbita pepo.
- 2Fruit de cette plante, utilisé comme légume.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how courgette appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le pâtisson se cultive comme une courgette.
Je repensais à l’automne en Oregon, au vol des faisans, aux soirs bleus, à la mélancolie. Il y avait eu tout cela, et aussi les fusilli aux fleurs de courgette, les souvenirs de neige, les lumières orange la nuit sur le périphérique.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccourgette
- corugette
- cougrette
- couregtte
- courgete
- courgetet
- courggette
- courgtete
- courrgette
- cuorgette
- ocurgette
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of courgette - 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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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