courroies
\ku.ʁwa\
The verdict
“courroies” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #46,682. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #46,682
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de courroie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-courroies · courroies · French
courroies · rank #46,682 · 10 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #46,682
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH courber
Nearest frequency peer: courber (-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 « courroies »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- 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
- cristallines
cristallines
53,317 corpus weight
What this shows « courroies » 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 | courroies |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ku.ʁwa\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #46,682 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « courroies »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around courroies (IPA \ku.ʁwa\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #46,682 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de courroie.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for courroies, with forms such as "ccourroies", "coruroies", and "couroies". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "courtois", "courrier", "courriel", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is courroies, spelled C-O-U-R-R-O-I-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de courroie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how courroies appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mériot, qui se rappelle un article de la revue technique américaine de Sikorsky, propose alors au commandant de couper les courroies restantes, de décaréner entièrement la plate-forme du rotor et de rentrer à faible vitesse à Tlemcen en maintenant un léger dérapage latéral qui apportera de l’air et du refroidissement au radiateur d’huile.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccourroies
- coruroies
- couroies
- courories
- courrioes
- courroeis
- courroiess
- courroise
- cuorroies
- ocurroies
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of courroies - 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.
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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