courtisane
\kuʁ.ti.zan\
The verdict
“courtisane” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #34,041. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #34,041
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 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.
Corpus desk
Index FR-courtisane · courtisane · French
courtisane · rank #34,041 · 14 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #34,041
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH couplage
Nearest frequency peer: couplage (-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 « courtisane »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- corinthiens
corinthiens
65,963 corpus weight
- Cotentin
Cotentin
65,962 corpus weight
- couplage
couplage
65,961 corpus weight
- courtisane
courtisane
65,960 corpus weight
- crescendo
crescendo
65,958 corpus weight
- critiquait
critiquait
65,956 corpus weight
What this shows « courtisane » 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 | 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) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « courtisane »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around courtisane (IPA \kuʁ.ti.zan\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #34,041 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for courtisane, with forms such as "ccourtisane", "corutisane", and "couritsane". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "courtisans", "cortisone", "courtisan", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is courtisane, spelled C-O-U-R-T-I-S-A-N-E.
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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how courtisane appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Notre religion est que Dieu dédaigne la vengeance, ce plaisir des petites âmes, et que ce n’était point sous son inspiration que Louis vidait toutes les poches de son peuple pour couvrir de diamants, de plumes, de dentelles, de rubans, de soie et de velours, les courtisans et les courtisanes de Versailles.
La marquise avait paru recevoir les soins intelligents d’Arthur […] avec l’insouciance d’une courtisane qui ne sait ni le coût des choses ni la valeur des hommes, et les prise au degré d’utilité dont ils lui sont.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccourtisane
- corutisane
- couritsane
- courrtisane
- courtiasne
- courtisaen
- courtisanne
- courtisnae
- courtissane
- courtsiane
- courttisane
- coutrisane
- cuortisane
- ocurtisane
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of courtisane - 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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