coûts
\ku\
The verdict
“coûts” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #3,450. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #3,450
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 2, 2026) - Pluriel de coût.
Corpus desk
Index FR-couts · coûts · French
coûts · rank #3,450 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #3,450
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH copain
Nearest frequency peer: copain (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “coûts”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- commerciale
commerciale
96,554 corpus weight
- copain
copain
96,552 corpus weight
- coûts
coûts
96,551 corpus weight
- dimension
dimension
96,550 corpus weight
- dingue
dingue
96,549 corpus weight
- discipline
discipline
96,548 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “coûts” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | coûts |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ku\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #3,450 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “coûts” sits in French frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around coûts (IPA \ku\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #3,450 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de coût.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for coûts, with forms such as "ccoûts", "cotûs", and "couts". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "cut", "cts", "crus", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 coûts, spelled C-O-Û-T-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de coût.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how coûts appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il souligne qu’il était devenu impératif de débrasquer à sec et que malgré les contraintes de coûts, l’équipe a su relever le défi et trouver des solutions.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccoûts
- cotûs
- couts
- coûst
- coûtss
- coûtts
- cûots
- ocûts
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of coûts - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of September 2, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "coûts", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).
What to do next
You've looked up "coûts". Here's where to go from here.
- "coûts" maps to 20 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "cut". View pair
- 8 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #3,450 among French headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
- Browse more French words in the "C" letter cohort. C–Z browse
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.