courut
\ku.ʁy\
The verdict
“courut” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #42,809. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #42,809
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de courir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-courut · courut · French
courut · rank #42,809 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #42,809
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cornemuse
Nearest frequency peer: cornemuse (-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 « courut »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- constituero…
constitueront
57,195 corpus weight
- conçut
conçut
57,194 corpus weight
- cornemuse
cornemuse
57,193 corpus weight
- courut
courut
57,192 corpus weight
- croisera
croisera
57,191 corpus weight
- cueilleurs
cueilleurs
57,190 corpus weight
What this shows « courut » 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 | courut |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ku.ʁy\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #42,809 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « courut »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around courut (IPA \ku.ʁy\), averb. Corpus frequency is #42,809 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de courir.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for courut, with forms such as "ccourut", "coruut", and "courrut". 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, "coût", "crut", "cousu", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is courut, spelled C-O-U-R-U-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de courir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how courut appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il rentra dans la remise, saisit un rusquier, en changea deux hameçons ; dans un vieux sac, il sortit une palangre et courut à la cuisine chercher une miche de pain, puis reprit le chemin des Bélugues.
On la réchauffa à l’aide de serviettes souillées du sang de sa mère, puis on la sécha dans un torchon blanc et rugueux dans lequel on l’enveloppa et l’on courut lui administrer les premiers soins dans la pouponnière.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccourut
- coruut
- courrut
- courtu
- courutt
- couurt
- cuorut
- ocurut
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of courut - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).