courtiser
\kuʁ.ti.ze\
The verdict
“courtiser” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #38,232. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #38,232
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Faire sa cour à quelqu’un dans l’espérance d’en obtenir quelque chose.
Corpus desk
Index FR-courtiser · courtiser · French
courtiser · rank #38,232 · 12 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-MID #38,232
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH couchait
Nearest frequency peer: couchait (-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 « courtiser »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- coptes
coptes
61,772 corpus weight
- corpulence
corpulence
61,771 corpus weight
- couchait
couchait
61,770 corpus weight
- courtiser
courtiser
61,769 corpus weight
- cratères
cratères
61,768 corpus weight
- crisse
crisse
61,767 corpus weight
What this shows « courtiser » 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 | courtiser |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kuʁ.ti.ze\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #38,232 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « courtiser »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around courtiser (IPA \kuʁ.ti.ze\), averb. Corpus frequency is #38,232 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for courtiser, with forms such as "ccourtiser", "corutiser", and "couritser". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "courtoise", "cotiser", "Courier", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is courtiser, spelled C-O-U-R-T-I-S-E-R.
Definition
- 1Faire sa cour à quelqu’un dans l’espérance d’en obtenir quelque chose.
- 2Être assidu auprès d’une femme ou d’une jeune fille ; chercher à lui plaire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how courtiser appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mine de rien, il est parvenu en quelques années à devenir l’un des producteurs les plus courtisés de la place… Un succès sur quatre en France, c’est lui. Fabrizio, le roi du porno et de l’intello !
Courtiser les grands. — Il courtise ce vieillard dans l’espoir d’en hériter.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccourtiser
- corutiser
- couritser
- courrtiser
- courtiserr
- courtisre
- courtisser
- courtsier
- courttiser
- coutriser
- cuortiser
- ocurtiser
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of courtiser - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).