coûtent
\kut\
The verdict
“coûtent” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #12,137. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #12,137
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent du verbe coûter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-coutent · coûtent · French
coûtent · rank #12,137 · 11 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #12,137
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH convaincue
Nearest frequency peer: convaincue (-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 « coûtent »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- contaminati…
contamination
87,867 corpus weight
- contentieux
contentieux
87,866 corpus weight
- convaincue
convaincue
87,865 corpus weight
- coûtent
coûtent
87,864 corpus weight
- croûte
croûte
87,862 corpus weight
- demandera
demandera
87,861 corpus weight
What this shows « coûtent » 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 | coûtent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kut\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #12,137 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « coûtent »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around coûtent (IPA \kut\), averb. Corpus frequency is #12,137 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for coûtent, with forms such as "ccoûtent", "cotûent", and "coutent". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "coûter", "couvert", "couvent", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 coûtent, spelled C-O-Û-T-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent du verbe coûter.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du subjonctif présent du verbe coûter.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how coûtent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il n’en est pas moins vrai que la plupart des hauts-fourneaux de la Champagne et de la Comté font et feront encore longtemps des cocotes et des marmites en fonte, attendu que ces cocotes et ces marmites, qui ne coûtent pas cher du reste, viennent à la fonte avec des pieds et des queues très-difficiles à obtenir convenablement en tôle, malgré les procédés…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccoûtent
- cotûent
- coutent
- coûetnt
- coûtennt
- coûtentt
- coûtetn
- coûtnet
- coûttent
- cûotent
- ocûtent
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of coûtent - 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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).