coutume
\ku.tym\
The verdict
“coutume” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #8,832. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #8,832
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Usage établi ; habitude contractée.
Corpus desk
Index FR-coutume · coutume · French
coutume · rank #8,832 · 9 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #8,832
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Cooper
Nearest frequency peer: Cooper (-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 « coutume »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- contrepartie
contrepartie
91,172 corpus weight
- controverse
controverse
91,171 corpus weight
- Cooper
Cooper
91,170 corpus weight
- coutume
coutume
91,169 corpus weight
- crayon
crayon
91,168 corpus weight
- demandeurs
demandeurs
91,167 corpus weight
What this shows « coutume » 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 | coutume |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ku.tym\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #8,832 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « coutume »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around coutume (IPA \ku.tym\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #8,832 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for coutume, with forms such as "ccoutume", "cotuume", and "coutmue". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "couture", "coutumes", "coutumier", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is coutume, spelled C-O-U-T-U-M-E.
Definition
- 1Usage établi ; habitude contractée.
- 2Pratique collective.
- 3Ensemble de droits locaux qui, s’étant établis par l’usage et par la commune pratique, tiennent lieu et ont force de loi.
- 4Codification du droit créé par l’usage dans certains pays.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how coutume appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…] et je sentis l’envie de faire une sieste de quinze ou vingt minutes, comme c’est ma coutume après le dîner.
[…], et debout près de la barre, Jean Donnard, grave et sombre, se signa, comme il avait coutume de faire chaque fois qu’il partait vers le large.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccoutume
- cotuume
- coutmue
- couttume
- coutuem
- coutumme
- couutme
- cuotume
- ocutume
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of coutume - 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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).