coursiers
\kuʁ.sje\
The verdict
“coursiers” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #40,697. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #40,697
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de coursier.
Corpus desk
Index FR-coursiers · coursiers · French
coursiers · rank #40,697 · 13 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-MID #40,697
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH coul
Nearest frequency peer: coul (-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 « coursiers »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- cordée
cordée
59,308 corpus weight
- Costco
Costco
59,306 corpus weight
- coul
coul
59,305 corpus weight
- coursiers
coursiers
59,304 corpus weight
- courtisans
courtisans
59,303 corpus weight
- CPL
CPL
59,301 corpus weight
What this shows « coursiers » 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 | coursiers |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kuʁ.sje\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #40,697 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « coursiers »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around coursiers (IPA \kuʁ.sje\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #40,697 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de coursier.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for coursiers, with forms such as "ccoursiers", "corusiers", and "courisers". 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, "courtier", "courtiers", "courses", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is coursiers, spelled C-O-U-R-S-I-E-R-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de coursier.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how coursiers appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Michel accéléra pour échapper à la meute, ce qui déclara dans un cumulo-stratus immaculé une toux généralisée et la mise à pied d’une centaine de coursiers égarés dans le smog.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccoursiers
- corusiers
- courisers
- courrsiers
- courseirs
- coursierrs
- coursierss
- coursiesr
- coursires
- courssiers
- cousriers
- cuorsiers
- ocursiers
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of coursiers - 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 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).