curieuse
\ky.ʁjøz\
The verdict
“curieuse” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #9,812. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,812
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Femme qui est curieuse.
Corpus desk
Index FR-curieuse · curieuse · French
curieuse · rank #9,812 · 10 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,812
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Deschamps
Nearest frequency peer: Deschamps (+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 « curieuse »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- coureur
coureur
90,192 corpus weight
- couteaux
couteaux
90,191 corpus weight
- curieuse
curieuse
90,189 corpus weight
- Deschamps
Deschamps
90,188 corpus weight
- Diana
Diana
90,187 corpus weight
- duché
duché
90,186 corpus weight
What this shows « curieuse » 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 | curieuse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ky.ʁjøz\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #9,812 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « curieuse »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around curieuse (IPA \ky.ʁjøz\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #9,812 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Femme qui est curieuse.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for curieuse, with forms such as "ccurieuse", "cruieuse", and "cuireuse". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "curieux", "curieuses", "creusé", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is curieuse, spelled C-U-R-I-E-U-S-E.
Definition
- 1Femme qui est curieuse.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccurieuse
- cruieuse
- cuireuse
- cureiuse
- curiesue
- curieues
- curieusse
- curiuese
- currieuse
- ucrieuse
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of curieuse - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "curieuse", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).