courtisane
Letters
10 characters
Frequency Rank
#34,041
in French word usage
Misspellings
14
tracked variants
Confusables
3
similar word pairs
courtisane is aFrenchnoun. It means: Celle qui est attachée à la cour, au service d’un souverain, qui fréquente la cour d’un souverain, d’un roi, d’un prince. Pronounced \kuʁ.ti.zan\. Often confused with courtisans and cortisone.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | courtisane |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kuʁ.ti.zan\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #34,041 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for courtisane is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kuʁ.ti.zan\. Corpus data places it at rank #34,041 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 14 documented wrong-spelling variants for courtisane, with forms such as "ccourtisane", "corutisane", and "couritsane". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "courtisans", "cortisone", "courtisan", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is courtisane, spelled C-O-U-R-T-I-S-A-N-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Celle qui est attachée à la cour, au service d’un souverain, qui fréquente la cour d’un souverain, d’un roi, d’un prince.
- 2Femme galante de profession ; prostituée.
- 3Femme de cette sorte, chez les peuples de l’Antiquité et dans les grandes villes d’Italie.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccourtisane,corutisane,couritsane,courrtisane,courtiasne,courtisaen,courtisanne,courtisnae,courtissane,courtsiane,courttisane,coutrisane,cuortisane,ocurtisane
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for courtisane
Misspelling Variants of "courtisane"
Frequency rank: #34,041 in French
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