Corse or course?
corse is a noun meaning “A (living) body”; course is a noun meaning “A sequence of events”. They sound the same (/kɔːs/). In written English (wordfreq, 2021 data) course is about 1,122 times as common as corse.
What is the difference between corse and course?
| corse | course | |
|---|---|---|
| Part of speech | noun | noun, verb, adverb |
| Meaning | A sequence of events A normal or customary sequence To run or flow (especially of liquids and more particularly blood) | |
| Example | none recorded | The normal course of events seems to be just one damned thing after another |
| Forms | corses | courses |
| Pronunciation | /kɔːs/ /kɔɹs/ | /kɔːs/ /kɔɹs/ /koːɹs/ |
| In writing | about once in every 4 million words | 275 times per million words |
Sources: corse and course in the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0); written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Every current meaning of corse and course
course
- 1
A sequence of events
The normal course of events seems to be just one damned thing after another
- 2
To run or flow (especially of liquids and more particularly blood)
The oil coursed through the engine
- 3
colloquialEllipsis of of course
- 4
Ellipsis of of course
- 5
A normal or customary sequence
- 6
To run through or over
- 7
A programme, a chosen manner of proceeding
Doubts arose about the expediency of such a course in the present crisis
- 8
To pursue by tracking or estimating the course taken by one's prey; to follow or chase after
Source: the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0); obsolete, archaic, dialect and rare senses left out.
Which is more common, corse or course?
corse appears about once in every 4 million words; course 275 times per million words.
corse about once in every 4 million wordscourse 275 times per million words
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How many people search corse vs course?
“corse vs course” is searched about 50 times a month on Google and 10 on Bing in the United States. Google counts close variants of a query together (“course vs corse”, “corse or course”).
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