cour
[kuʁ]
The verdict
“cour” is uncommon German (frequency #63,215 among 1,273 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,215
- frequency rank, German
- 1,273
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - offener Platz, der von Mauern oder Gebäuden umgeben ist; Hof
Corpus desk
Index DE-cour · cour · German
cour · rank #63,215 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,215
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,273
- PHOTO-FINISH Computersystem
Nearest frequency peer: Computersystem (-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.
Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „cour“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Clifton
Clifton
36,791 corpus weight
- Cobalt
Cobalt
36,790 corpus weight
- Computersys…
Computersystem
36,787 corpus weight
- cour
cour
36,786 corpus weight
- dahinten
dahinten
36,784 corpus weight
- Dauerkarte
Dauerkarte
36,782 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „cour“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cour |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kuʁ] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #63,215 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „cour“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
cour is uncommon German at frequency #63,215 among 1,273 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [kuʁ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "offener Platz, der von Mauern oder Gebäuden umgeben ist; Hof".
cour doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our 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 German form is cour, spelled C-O-U-R.
Definition
- 1offener Platz, der von Mauern oder Gebäuden umgeben ist; Hof
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how cour appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le château a une magnifique cour.
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 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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