courroie

\ku.ʁwa\

/\ku.ʁwa\/ noun

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The verdict

“courroie” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #28,901. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#28,901
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords
8
tracked misspellings
8
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pièce de cuir ou d’étoffe, coupée en long, étroite, qui sert à lier, à attacher quelque chose.

Corpus desk

Index FR-courroie · courroie · French

courroie · rank #28,901 · 8 variants · 8 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #28,901
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
  • VAR-MID 8 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH coupon

Nearest frequency peer: coupon (-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 « courroie »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « courroie » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

courroie vs courtois
75% similar
courroie vs courroux
75% similar
courroie vs courtoise
78% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for courroie
PropertyValue
Headwordcourroie
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ku.ʁwa\
Letters8
Frequency rank#28,901
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs8
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « courroie »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).courroiese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « coupon » (#28,900), « Courtrai » (#28,902), « couplets » (#28,899). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « courroie » est au #28,901. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 8 spelling variants around courroie (IPA \ku.ʁwa\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #28,901 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for courroie, with forms such as "ccourroie", "coruroie", and "couroie". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 8 confusable-pair relationships, "courtois", "courroux", "courtoise", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

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 courroie, spelled C-O-U-R-R-O-I-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Pièce de cuir ou d’étoffe, coupée en long, étroite, qui sert à lier, à attacher quelque chose.
  2. 2
    Courroie de transmission, courroie d’entraînement : pour la transmission de mouvement et de puissance
  3. 3
    Bande souple pour le transport des matières.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how courroie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. J’allai dans la sellerie où je choisis des courroies solides dont j’éprouvai la force de résistance… […]
  2. Pour l’essai des chevaux appareillés, les ruses des maquignons ne sont pas moins variées ; ainsi le plus paresseux est mis sous verge ; […] ; le croupionnement peut être évité, la ruade amoindrie par les courroies dites rueuses, […].

Synonyms

courroie d’entraînementcourroie de transmission

This word in other languages

belt(English)correa(Español)Riemen(Deutsch)correia(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ccourroie
  • coruroie
  • couroie
  • courorie
  • courrioe
  • courroei
  • cuorroie
  • ocurroie

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of courroie - 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.

ccourroie1coruroie2couroie1courorie2courrioe2courroei2cuorroie2ocurroie2
Edit distance from "courroie"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "courroie"?
"courroie" is spelled C-O-U-R-R-O-I-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ku.ʁwa\.
What does "courroie" mean?
As a noun, "courroie" means: Pièce de cuir ou d’étoffe, coupée en long, étroite, qui sert à lier, à attacher quelque chose.
What words are commonly confused with "courroie"?
"courroie" is commonly confused with "courtois", "courroux", "courtoise". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "courroie"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "courroie" is \ku.ʁwa\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "courroie" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "courroie", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Courtrai#28,902couplets#28,899couchage#28,898concocté#28,888

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).

coupon8 variantsdatait8 variantsdiluer8 variantsbrins8 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list