cousins
\ku.zɛ̃\
The verdict
“cousins” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #8,222. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #8,222
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 12
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de cousin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cousins · cousins · French
cousins · rank #8,222 · 9 variants · 12 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #8,222
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH confrontation
Nearest frequency peer: confrontation (-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 « cousins »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- comptoir
comptoir
91,782 corpus weight
- comtesse
comtesse
91,781 corpus weight
- confrontati…
confrontation
91,780 corpus weight
- cousins
cousins
91,779 corpus weight
- crains
crains
91,778 corpus weight
- croisière
croisière
91,777 corpus weight
What this shows « cousins » 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 | cousins |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ku.zɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #8,222 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « cousins »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around cousins (IPA \ku.zɛ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #8,222 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de cousin.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for cousins, with forms such as "ccousins", "cosuins", and "couisns". 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 12 confusable-pair relationships, "coussin", "coussins", "coins", 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 cousins, spelled C-O-U-S-I-N-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de cousin.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how cousins appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Lorsque, au 15 août, le « Tout-Rouen » vient célébrer à Dieppe la fête de l’impératrice Eugénie, il retrouve tous ses cousins normands qui aimeraient bien le « rouenniser ».
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccousins
- cosuins
- couisns
- cousinns
- cousinss
- cousisn
- cousnis
- cuosins
- ocusins
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cousins - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "cousins", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).