couture

/\ku.tyʁ\/ noun

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#8,088

in French word usage

Misspellings

9

tracked variants

Confusables

19

similar word pairs

couture is aFrenchnoun. It means: Action, art de coudre. Pronounced \ku.tyʁ\. It ranks #8,088 in French word frequency. Often confused with couvre and culture.

Key facts for couture
PropertyValue
Headwordcouture
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ku.tyʁ\
Letters7
Frequency rank#8,088
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs19
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of couture in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for couture is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ku.tyʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #8,088 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for couture, with forms such as "ccouture", "cotuure", and "coutrue". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 19 confusable-pair relationships, "couvre", "culture", "couturier", 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 spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is couture, spelled C-O-U-T-U-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Action, art de coudre.
  2. 2
    Assemblage de deux pièces d’étoffe, de cuir, etc., qui se fait au moyen de l’aiguille, de l’alène, avec du fil de la soie, etc.
  3. 3
    Ensemble des personnes qui font métier de coudre.
  4. 4
    Fine bande contrastante, limitée à un trait continu ajouté autour d’une pièce (ou d’un symbole d’armoiries tout entier) et dont l’émail (métal, fourrure ou de sable) uniforme, plan ou en relief, permet de poser la pièce par dessus d’autres (en les recouvrant partiellement) et de la mettre en évidence, tout en évitant les juxtapositions jugées disgracieuses ou non conformes aux règles héraldiques (métal contre métal, fourrure contre fourrure, voire aussi sable contre sable). On parle parfois aussi (mais improprement) de filet, qui désigne plutôt le trait de séparation entre deux pièces juxtaposées, dont aucune ne recouvre partiellement l’autre. Ne pas confondre avec le listel, plus épais et qui entoure le symbole héraldique tout entier et en fait partie.
  5. 5
    Cicatrice qui reste d’une plaie, soit qu’elle ait été recousue ou non, et même des grandes marques que laisse la petite vérole sur le visage.
  6. 6
    Intervalle qui se trouve entre deux bordages et que les calfats remplissent d’étoupe. Il se dit également de l’étoupe même.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ccouture,cotuure,coutrue,coutture,coutuer,couturre,couutre,cuoture,ocuture

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for couture

Misspelling Variants of "couture"

ccouture8cotuure7coutrue7coutture8coutuer7couturre8couutre7cuoture7
Misspelling Variants of "couture"

Frequency rank: #8,088 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "couture"?
"couture" is spelled C-O-U-T-U-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ku.tyʁ\.
What does "couture" mean?
As a noun, "couture" means: Action, art de coudre.
What words are commonly confused with "couture"?
"couture" is commonly confused with "couvre", "culture", "couturier". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "couture"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "couture" is \ku.tyʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "couture" come from?
"couture" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.