curie
\ky.ʁi\
The verdict
“curie” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #16,106. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #16,106
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Subdivision de la tribu chez les Romains.
Corpus desk
Index FR-curie · curie · French
curie · rank #16,106 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #16,106
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Cristina
Nearest frequency peer: Cristina (-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 « curie »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- corn
corn
83,898 corpus weight
- corp
corp
83,897 corpus weight
- Cristina
Cristina
83,896 corpus weight
- curie
curie
83,895 corpus weight
- dem
dem
83,894 corpus weight
- descendance
descendance
83,893 corpus weight
What this shows « curie » 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 | curie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ky.ʁi\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #16,106 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « curie »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around curie (IPA \ky.ʁi\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #16,106 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for curie, with forms such as "ccurie", "cruie", and "curei". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "cuve", "cute", "Cyril", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 curie, spelled C-U-R-I-E.
Definition
- 1Subdivision de la tribu chez les Romains.
- 2Subdivision de la tribu chez les Romains.
- 3Subdivision de la tribu chez les Romains.
- 4Subdivision de la tribu chez les Romains.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how curie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Romulus partagea le peuple romain en trois tribus, et chaque tribu en dix curies ; mais il n’y avait de curies que pour le peuple de l’enceinte de Rome ; et voter par curies, c’était voter en appelant seulement au vote les gens de la ville.
Le peuple chercha toujours à faire par curies les assemblées qu’on avait coutume de faire par centuries, et à faire par tribus les assemblées qui se faisaient par curies.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccurie
- cruie
- curei
- currie
- ucrie
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of curie - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).