Courier
The verdict
“Courier” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #40,201. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #40,201
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom d’une police à chasse fixe (monospace) rappelant une machine à écrire, et dont les empattements sont conçus pour éviter toute confusion entre deux caractères.
Corpus desk
Index FR-courier · Courier · French
Courier · rank #40,201 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #40,201
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH corbière
Nearest frequency peer: corbière (-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 « Courier »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- copropriétés
copropriétés
59,803 corpus weight
- coral
coral
59,802 corpus weight
- corbière
corbière
59,801 corpus weight
- Courier
Courier
59,800 corpus weight
- cruciaux
cruciaux
59,799 corpus weight
- Cré
Cré
59,798 corpus weight
What this shows « Courier » 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 | Courier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #40,201 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Courier »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around Courier, aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #40,201 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Nom d’une police à chasse fixe (monospace) rappelant une machine à écrire, et dont les empattements sont conçus pour éviter toute confusion entre deux caractères.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for Courier, with forms such as "ccourier", "coruier", and "couirer". 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, "crier", "curie", "course", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is Courier, spelled C-O-U-R-I-E-R.
Definition
- 1Nom d’une police à chasse fixe (monospace) rappelant une machine à écrire, et dont les empattements sont conçus pour éviter toute confusion entre deux caractères.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Courier appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le livre a été entièrement composé en Courier.
Sur l’écran noir apparaissent des signes cabalistiques en police Courier.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccourier
- coruier
- couirer
- coureir
- courierr
- courire
- cuorier
- ocurier
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Courier - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).