courriel
\ku.ʁjɛl\
The verdict
“courriel” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #9,634. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,634
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Système de transmission de messages électroniques entre différents utilisateurs, en différé, et en utilisant le réseau internet.
Corpus desk
Index FR-courriel · courriel · French
courriel · rank #9,634 · 9 variants · 10 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,634
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH coupée
Nearest frequency peer: coupée (-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 « courriel »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- cotisation
cotisation
90,370 corpus weight
- coupure
coupure
90,369 corpus weight
- coupée
coupée
90,368 corpus weight
- courriel
courriel
90,367 corpus weight
- créées
créées
90,366 corpus weight
- cuisses
cuisses
90,365 corpus weight
What this shows « courriel » 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 | courriel |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ku.ʁjɛl\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #9,634 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « courriel »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around courriel (IPA \ku.ʁjɛl\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #9,634 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for courriel, with forms such as "ccourriel", "coruriel", and "couriel". 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 10 confusable-pair relationships, "courrier", "courtier", "courroie", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is courriel, spelled C-O-U-R-R-I-E-L.
Definition
- 1Système de transmission de messages électroniques entre différents utilisateurs, en différé, et en utilisant le réseau internet.
- 2Message transmis en utilisant ce système.
- 3Adresse courriel.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how courriel appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dès lors que ceux-ci sont équipés d’un ordinateur et d’une adresse électronique, vous pouvez envoyer vos photos par courriel. Le courriel augmente l’instantanéité de la photo numérique : […].
Le code malveillant peut arriver dans des spams ou dans des messages d’hameçonnage, ou dans des courriels envoyés automatiquement par les ordinateurs de correspondants connus qui ont été infectés à leur insu.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccourriel
- coruriel
- couriel
- courirel
- courreil
- courriell
- courrile
- cuorriel
- ocurriel
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of courriel - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "courriel", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).