cuirasse
\kɥi.ʁas\
The verdict
“cuirasse” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #47,270. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #47,270
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Arme défensive qui couvre la poitrine et quelquefois le dos.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cuirasse · cuirasse · French
cuirasse · rank #47,270 · 9 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #47,270
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH croustillants
Nearest frequency peer: croustillants (-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 « cuirasse »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- courson
courson
52,735 corpus weight
- crosses
crosses
52,733 corpus weight
- croustillan…
croustillants
52,732 corpus weight
- cuirasse
cuirasse
52,731 corpus weight
- cuirassiers
cuirassiers
52,730 corpus weight
- cédez
cédez
52,728 corpus weight
What this shows « cuirasse » 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 | cuirasse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɥi.ʁas\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #47,270 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « cuirasse »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around cuirasse (IPA \kɥi.ʁas\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #47,270 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 cuirasse, with forms such as "ccuirasse", "ciurasse", and "cuiarsse". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "cuisse", "culasse", "cuirassés", 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 spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is cuirasse, spelled C-U-I-R-A-S-S-E.
Definition
- 1Arme défensive qui couvre la poitrine et quelquefois le dos.
- 2Ensemble des plaques qui revêtent certains poissons ou reptiles.
- 3Revêtement métallique qui protège les navires contre l’action des projectiles.
- 4Défaut, point de vulnérabilité, point faible.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cuirasse appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Cromwel n'étoit pas moins agité des terreurs de la tyrannie. Il étoit toujours couvert d'une cuirasse, chargé d'armes offensives, et environné de satellites : […].
Après Alexandre, on chargea la cavalerie d’armes défensives; on donna aux cavaliers de lourdes cuirasses en écailles, puis des cuissarts et des gantelets, et aux chevaux des frontaux et des garde-flancs.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccuirasse
- ciurasse
- cuiarsse
- cuirase
- cuirases
- cuirrasse
- cuirsase
- curiasse
- ucirasse
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cuirasse - 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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).