couture
\ku.tyʁ\
The verdict
“couture” is a regularly-used French word, ranked #8,088 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #8,088
- frequency rank, French
- 7
- letters
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 19
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Action, art de coudre.
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 | couture |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ku.tyʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #8,088 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 19 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “couture” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for couture is 7 letters long, classified as a noun, 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 generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for couture, with forms such as "ccouture", "cotuure", and "coutrue". 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 19 confusable-pair relationships, "couvre", "culture", "couturier", 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 its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is couture, spelled C-O-U-T-U-R-E.
Definition
- 1Action, art de coudre.
- 2Assemblage 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.
- 3Ensemble des personnes qui font métier de coudre.
- 4Fine 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.
- 5Cicatrice 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.
- 6Intervalle qui se trouve entre deux bordages et que les calfats remplissent d’étoupe. Il se dit également de l’étoupe même.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccouture,cotuure,coutrue,coutture,coutuer,couturre,couutre,cuoture,ocuture
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of couture - 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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Using “couture”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is C-O-U-T-U-R-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ku.tyʁ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “couvre” - see the side-by-side comparison. couture vs couvre
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
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.