couturier
\ku.ty.ʁje\
The verdict
“couturier” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #20,104. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #20,104
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celui qui invente des costumes, prêt-à-porter ou sur mesure.
Corpus desk
Index FR-couturier · couturier · French
couturier · rank #20,104 · 12 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-MID #20,104
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH coussins
Nearest frequency peer: coussins (-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 « couturier »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- corporel
corporel
79,900 corpus weight
- couronnée
couronnée
79,899 corpus weight
- coussins
coussins
79,898 corpus weight
- couturier
couturier
79,897 corpus weight
- craie
craie
79,896 corpus weight
- crasse
crasse
79,895 corpus weight
What this shows « couturier » 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 | couturier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ku.ty.ʁje\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #20,104 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « couturier »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around couturier (IPA \ku.ty.ʁje\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #20,104 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for couturier, with forms such as "ccouturier", "cotuurier", and "coutruier". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "couturière", "couturiers", "couture", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is couturier, spelled C-O-U-T-U-R-I-E-R.
Definition
- 1Celui qui invente des costumes, prêt-à-porter ou sur mesure.
- 2Celui qui exécute des travaux de couture, qui fabrique des vêtements.
- 3Ancien nom de celui des muscles de la cuisse qui permet de s’asseoir en tailleur.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how couturier appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Trois top-modèles vivaient en colocation dans l'appartement prêté par un couturier en vogue. Une quatrième débarqua de sa Russie natale, une longue liane de 180 cm, belle, de naturel parée.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccouturier
- cotuurier
- coutruier
- coutturier
- coutuirer
- coutureir
- couturierr
- couturire
- couturrier
- couutrier
- cuoturier
- ocuturier
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of couturier - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "couturier", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).