courtois
\kuʁ.twa\
The verdict
“courtois” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #11,024. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #11,024
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Conforme à l’idéal de la chevalerie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-courtois · courtois · French
courtois · rank #11,024 · 11 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-MID #11,024
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH correspondre
Nearest frequency peer: correspondre (-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 « courtois »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- congrégation
congrégation
88,980 corpus weight
- continuation
continuation
88,979 corpus weight
- correspondre
correspondre
88,978 corpus weight
- courtois
courtois
88,977 corpus weight
- cravate
cravate
88,976 corpus weight
- cuillère
cuillère
88,975 corpus weight
What this shows « courtois » 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 | courtois |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kuʁ.twa\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #11,024 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « courtois »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around courtois (IPA \kuʁ.twa\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #11,024 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for courtois, with forms such as "ccourtois", "corutois", and "courotis". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "courts", "curtis", "courtoise", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is courtois, spelled C-O-U-R-T-O-I-S.
Definition
- 1Conforme à l’idéal de la chevalerie.
- 2Conforme au code des trouvères et troubadours.
- 3Qui fait preuve de distinction, de politesse dans ses manières, qui parle et agit avec une civilité raffinée et avec considération pour autrui.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how courtois appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Or je me propose d'envisager « Tristan » non point comme œuvre littéraire, mais comme type des relations de l’homme et de la femme dans un groupe historique donné : l’élite sociale, la société courtoise et pénétrée de chevalerie du XIIᵉ et du XIIIᵉ siècle.
L’amour courtois.
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccourtois
- corutois
- courotis
- courrtois
- courtios
- courtoiss
- courtosi
- courttois
- coutrois
- cuortois
- ocurtois
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of courtois - 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
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