courtier
\kuʁ.tje\
The verdict
“courtier” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #13,150. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #13,150
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mandataire (attention, pas au sens où le droit commercial l’entend) qui, moyennant une prime, s’entremet pour la vente ou l’achat de certaines marchandises, ou pour les affrètements, les assurances...
Corpus desk
Index FR-courtier · courtier · French
courtier · rank #13,150 · 11 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #13,150
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH devises
Nearest frequency peer: devises (+2 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 « courtier »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- cookie
cookie
86,855 corpus weight
- coquine
coquine
86,854 corpus weight
- courtier
courtier
86,851 corpus weight
- devises
devises
86,849 corpus weight
- dilemme
dilemme
86,848 corpus weight
- divergences
divergences
86,847 corpus weight
What this shows « courtier » 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 | courtier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kuʁ.tje\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #13,150 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « courtier »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around courtier (IPA \kuʁ.tje\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #13,150 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for courtier, with forms such as "ccourtier", "corutier", and "couriter". 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, "coûter", "courtiers", "courtiser", 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 explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is courtier, spelled C-O-U-R-T-I-E-R.
Definition
- 1Mandataire (attention, pas au sens où le droit commercial l’entend) qui, moyennant une prime, s’entremet pour la vente ou l’achat de certaines marchandises, ou pour les affrètements, les assurances, etc.
- 2Intermédiaire qui agit sur les marchés financiers pour le compte de tiers ; intermédiaire qui met en relation deux parties pour qu’elles contractent.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how courtier appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Morel est maintenant courtier en pierres fines.
Les expéditeurs sont à leur poste ; les courtiers des grandes maisons étrangères sont sur pied. Sans beaucoup de bruit, des cours s'établissent, des transactions s'effectuent, des chargements s'accomplissent.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccourtier
- corutier
- couriter
- courrtier
- courteir
- courtierr
- courtire
- courttier
- coutrier
- cuortier
- ocurtier
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of courtier - 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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "courtier", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).