curieux
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,994
in French word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
6
similar word pairs
curieux is anFrenchadj. It means: Qui a le désir d’apprendre, de voir des choses nouvelles, intéressantes, rares, etc. Pronounced \ky.ʁjø\. It ranks #2,994 in French word frequency. Often confused with curseur and creux.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | curieux |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \ky.ʁjø\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #2,994 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for curieux is 7 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ky.ʁjø\. Corpus data places it at rank #2,994 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 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 curieux, with forms such as "ccurieux", "cruieux", and "cuireux". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "curseur", "creux", "cieux", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is curieux, spelled C-U-R-I-E-U-X, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Qui a le désir d’apprendre, de voir des choses nouvelles, intéressantes, rares, etc.
- 2Qui a cure de, soin de, souci de, etc.
- 3Qui veut connaître un secret ; qui est indiscret.
- 4Surprenant, étrange, bizarre.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccurieux,cruieux,cuireux,cureiux,curieuxx,curiexu,curiuex,currieux,ucrieux
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for curieux
Misspelling Variants of "curieux"
Frequency rank: #2,994 in French
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