courte
\kuʁt\
The verdict
“courte” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #2,468. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #2,468
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de court.
Corpus desk
Index FR-courte · courte · French
courte · rank #2,468 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #2,468
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH connue
Nearest frequency peer: connue (-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 « courte »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- charges
charges
97,536 corpus weight
- chiens
chiens
97,535 corpus weight
- connue
connue
97,534 corpus weight
- courte
courte
97,533 corpus weight
- dette
dette
97,532 corpus weight
- doigt
doigt
97,531 corpus weight
What this shows « courte » 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 | courte |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kuʁt\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #2,468 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « courte »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around courte (IPA \kuʁt\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #2,468 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Féminin singulier de court.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for courte, with forms such as "ccourte", "corute", and "couret". 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, "coût", "cure", "cute", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is courte, spelled C-O-U-R-T-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de court.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how courte appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ordinairement elle est ovale et assez courte; mais elle a toujours une tendance à se scalariser, et alors sa spire s’alonge et les tours se disjoignent plus ou moins; enfin sa carène peut être simple ou être armée de tubercules épineux.
Il recouvrit la nappe d’un couvre-autel de drap vert timbré d’une petite croix de ganse jaune, et après une courte prière à la grille de la sainte-table, il sortit, non sans me donner au passage un regard de déférente approbation pour ma présence.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccourte
- corute
- couret
- courrte
- courtte
- coutre
- cuorte
- ocurte
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of courte - 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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).