Cousteau
\kus.to\
The verdict
“Cousteau” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #43,367. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #43,367
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cousteau · Cousteau · French
Cousteau · rank #43,367 · 10 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #43,367
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH coulis
Nearest frequency peer: coulis (-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 « Cousteau »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- corrosif
corrosif
56,637 corpus weight
- cotte
cotte
56,636 corpus weight
- coulis
coulis
56,635 corpus weight
- Cousteau
Cousteau
56,634 corpus weight
- crapule
crapule
56,633 corpus weight
- croisait
croisait
56,631 corpus weight
What this shows « Cousteau » 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 | Cousteau |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \kus.to\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #43,367 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Cousteau »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around Cousteau (IPA \kus.to\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #43,367 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Nom de famille.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for Cousteau, with forms such as "ccousteau", "cosuteau", and "cousetau". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "couteau", "couteaux", "coteau", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is Cousteau, spelled C-O-U-S-T-E-A-U.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Cousteau appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
À Cubzac-les-Ponts, en haut de la rue du Port, se trouvent des caves qui, depuis leur création par André Cousteau, tout au début du XXᵉ siècle, servent à l’élaboration de vin effervescent connu sous le nom de Café de Paris.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccousteau
- cosuteau
- cousetau
- coussteau
- coustaeu
- cousteua
- coustteau
- coutseau
- cuosteau
- ocusteau
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Cousteau - 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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).