courtes
\kuʁt\
The verdict
“courtes” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #6,284. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #6,284
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin pluriel de court.
Corpus desk
Index FR-courtes · courtes · French
courtes · rank #6,284 · 10 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,284
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH coule
Nearest frequency peer: coule (-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 « courtes »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- consensus
consensus
93,721 corpus weight
- coordination
coordination
93,720 corpus weight
- cordes
cordes
93,719 corpus weight
- coule
coule
93,718 corpus weight
- courtes
courtes
93,717 corpus weight
- divine
divine
93,715 corpus weight
What this shows « courtes » 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 | courtes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kuʁt\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #6,284 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « courtes »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around courtes (IPA \kuʁt\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #6,284 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Féminin pluriel de court.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for courtes, with forms such as "ccourtes", "corutes", and "courets". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "coûte", "coûts", "cures", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is courtes, spelled C-O-U-R-T-E-S.
Definition
- 1Féminin pluriel de court.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how courtes appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’autorité d’un Maurras peut encore servir quand on remarquera la simplicité de ses vers à se laisser aller avec moins de complaisance et seulement en souriant, à goûter la subtilité et l’excessive afféterie des courtes pièces de vers de certains prosateurs qui gongorisent sans mallarmiser le moins du monde.
Des pensées ardentes enflammaient son âme, comme ses sens étaient embrasés par le spectacle de ces actrices aux yeux lascifs et relevés par le rouge, à gorges étincelantes, vêtues de basquines voluptueuses à plis licencieux, à jupes courtes montrant leurs jambes en bas rouges à coins verts, chaussées de manière à mettre un parterre en émoi.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccourtes
- corutes
- courets
- courrtes
- courtess
- courtse
- courttes
- coutres
- cuortes
- ocurtes
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of courtes - 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 "courtes", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).