coussins
\ku.sɛ̃\
The verdict
“coussins” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #20,103. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #20,103
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de coussin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-coussins · coussins · French
coussins · rank #20,103 · 9 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #20,103
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH couronnée
Nearest frequency peer: couronnée (-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 « coussins »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- coquillages
coquillages
79,901 corpus weight
- corporel
corporel
79,900 corpus weight
- couronnée
couronnée
79,899 corpus weight
- coussins
coussins
79,898 corpus weight
- couturier
couturier
79,897 corpus weight
- craie
craie
79,896 corpus weight
What this shows « coussins » 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 | coussins |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ku.sɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #20,103 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « coussins »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around coussins (IPA \ku.sɛ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #20,103 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de coussin.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for coussins, with forms such as "ccoussins", "cosusins", and "cousisns". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "Cousin", "Cousine", "cousins", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is coussins, spelled C-O-U-S-S-I-N-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de coussin.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how coussins appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je m’assis sur un divan disparu sous les coussins, et je me sentis soudain soutenu, porté, capitonné par ces petits sacs de plume couverts de soie, comme si la forme et la place de mon corps eussent été marquées d’avance sur ce meuble.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccoussins
- cosusins
- cousisns
- coussinns
- coussinss
- coussisn
- coussnis
- cuossins
- ocussins
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of coussins - 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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).