couteaux
\ku.to\
The verdict
“couteaux” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #9,810. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,810
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de couteau.
Corpus desk
Index FR-couteaux · couteaux · French
couteaux · rank #9,810 · 10 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,810
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH coureur
Nearest frequency peer: coureur (-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 « couteaux »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- contrôlée
contrôlée
90,194 corpus weight
- convaincus
convaincus
90,193 corpus weight
- coureur
coureur
90,192 corpus weight
- couteaux
couteaux
90,191 corpus weight
- curieuse
curieuse
90,189 corpus weight
- Deschamps
Deschamps
90,188 corpus weight
What this shows « couteaux » 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 | couteaux |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ku.to\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #9,810 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « couteaux »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around couteaux (IPA \ku.to\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #9,810 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de couteau.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for couteaux, with forms such as "ccouteaux", "cotueaux", and "couetaux". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "coûteux", "coteau", "couteau", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 couteaux, spelled C-O-U-T-E-A-U-X.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de couteau.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how couteaux appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Oui ! je l'approuve parce que c'est ignoble ! un élève que j'avais stylé à la vertu !.. et c'est vous qui le débauchez... vous, son oncle !.. un homme qui a blanchi dans les manches de couteaux !
C’était là que nous entreposions des voitures, des motos et des bicyclettes abandonnées, volées, retrouvées et pas réclamées, et rangions nos véhicules cassés, la cahute en ciment abritant des foultitudes d’objets illicites, tels revolvers, carabines, couteaux de toutes sortes, pilules, poudres et herbes de toutes autres sortes, publications cochonnes (de…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccouteaux
- cotueaux
- couetaux
- coutaeux
- couteauxx
- couteaxu
- couteuax
- coutteaux
- cuoteaux
- ocuteaux
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of couteaux - 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 "couteaux", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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 (10 here; floor ≥5).