curriculum

Name: curriculum, French Word Data
Creator: Wiktionary
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

\ky.ʁi.ky.lɔm\

/\ky.ʁi.ky.lɔm\/ noun

By PlainSpell · According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA) · analyzed September 3, 2026

The verdict

“curriculum” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #32,365. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#32,365
frequency rank, French: 8,609
“C” headwords: 13
tracked misspellings

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Curriculum vitæ.

Corpus desk

Index FR-curriculum · curriculum · French

curriculum · rank #32,365 · 13 variants · 0 confusables

FREQ-MID #32,365
LEN-MEGA 10 letters
VOW-4 4 vowels
CONFUS-0 No pairs
VAR-HIGH 13 variants
BOOK-DENSE 8,609
PHOTO-FINISH culasse

Nearest frequency peer: culasse (-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.

Ctrl

67,638
culasse

67,637
curriculum

67,636
CX

67,635
cylindrée

67,634
Dacia

67,633

What this shows « curriculum » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Key facts for curriculum
Property	Value
Headword	curriculum
Language	French
Part of speech	Noun
IPA	\ky.ʁi.ky.lɔm\
Letters	10
Frequency rank	#32,365
Misspellings tracked	13
Confusable pairs	0
Source	Wiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « curriculum »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).curriculumse place ici:

#32,365

#1#100#1K#10K#100K

← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « culasse » (#32,364), « CX » (#32,366), « Ctrl » (#32,363). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « curriculum » est au #32,365. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 13 spelling variants around curriculum (IPA \ky.ʁi.ky.lɔm\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #32,365 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for curriculum, with forms such as "ccurriculum", "cruriculum", and "curiculum". 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. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is curriculum, spelled C-U-R-R-I-C-U-L-U-M.

Definition

1
Curriculum vitæ.
2
Cursus.
3
Parcours de formation initiale ou continue dont les objectifs, les programmes ainsi que les modalités d’apprentissage et d’évaluation des acquis sont conçus comme un ensemble cohérent.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how curriculum appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

La dame était en possession d’un « curriculum » tout chaud, prêt à être servi.
Si GIB connaît déjà des difficultés, le neveu Diego du Monceau a 35 ans et un beau curriculum : l’école de commerce Solvay, suivie d’un MBA à Harvard.

Synonyms

parcours de formation

This word in other languages

curriculum(English)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

ccurriculum
cruriculum
curiculum
curirculum
currciulum
curricculum
curricluum
curricullum
curriculmu
curriculumm
curricuulm
curriuclum
ucrriculum

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of curriculum - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

Edit distance from "curriculum"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "curriculum"?

"curriculum" is spelled C-U-R-R-I-C-U-L-U-M. The IPA pronunciation is \ky.ʁi.ky.lɔm\.

What does "curriculum" mean?

As a noun, "curriculum" means: Curriculum vitæ.

What are common misspellings of "curriculum"?

Common misspellings include "ccurriculum", "cruriculum", "curiculum", "curirculum", "currciulum". The correct spelling is "curriculum".

How do you pronounce "curriculum"?

The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "curriculum" is \ky.ʁi.ky.lɔm\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.

What language does "curriculum" come from?

"curriculum" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.

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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "curriculum", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

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Similar misspelling depth

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