cousue
\ku.zy\
The verdict
“cousue” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #39,728. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #39,728
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Cigarette industrielle, déjà roulée, par opposition à celle que l’on roule soi-même.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cousue · cousue · French
cousue · rank #39,728 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #39,728
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Costello
Nearest frequency peer: Costello (-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 « cousue »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- coriaces
coriaces
60,276 corpus weight
- cornichon
cornichon
60,275 corpus weight
- Costello
Costello
60,274 corpus weight
- cousue
cousue
60,273 corpus weight
- coworking
coworking
60,272 corpus weight
- CPAM
CPAM
60,271 corpus weight
What this shows « cousue » 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 | cousue |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ku.zy\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #39,728 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « cousue »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around cousue (IPA \ku.zy\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #39,728 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Cigarette industrielle, déjà roulée, par opposition à celle que l’on roule soi-même.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for cousue, with forms such as "ccousue", "cosuue", and "couseu". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "coûte", "couve", "couvre", 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 its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is cousue, spelled C-O-U-S-U-E.
Definition
- 1Cigarette industrielle, déjà roulée, par opposition à celle que l’on roule soi-même.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cousue appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mine de rien, j’allume une cousue.
Quelqu’un le vit un jour en train de couper au rasoir une cousue, autre surnom de la chose, et de disposer les deux bouts devant lui. Il aurait ainsi l’impression, dit-il au visiteur, de fumer deux cigarettes au lieu d’une […].
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccousue
- cosuue
- couseu
- coussue
- couuse
- cuosue
- ocusue
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cousue - 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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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 (7 here; floor ≥5).