cour vs Cui, What's the Difference?

Which to use

“cour” is a noun and “Cui” is a name - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#41,064
“cour” frequency rank: #39,761
“Cui” frequency rank: 80825
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	cour	Cui
Definition	A three-month unit of television broadcasting, corresponding to one of the four seasons.	A surname from Mandarin.

Letter map: cour vs Cui

Shared letters muted; letters that set cour and Cui apart highlighted. Shared run: 2.

4 ch

cour

3 ch

Cui

Grammar separator: cour vs Cui

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: cour is anoun and Cuianame. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 80825, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

cour is recorded at frequency rank #41,064, classified as anoun, pronounced /ˈkʊə(ɹ)/. Cui is at rank #39,761, tagged as aname.

Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.

With a confusion score of 80825, this pair ranks #18,978 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of cour vs Cui

Shared letters: cu. Private to "cour": or. Private to "Cui": i.

"cour" · 4 letters · shape CVVC · "Cui" · 3 letters · shape CVV

Known mistypes of this pair

cour ← ccour · coru · courr · cuor

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "cour" and "Cui" mean the same thing in a sentence?

No - they are not even the same part of speech. "cour" is a noun and "Cui" a name, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.

Which is more common, "cour" or "Cui"?

"Cui" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #39,761 in our English list, against #41,064 for "cour". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

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Full dictionary entry for "cour" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
Full dictionary entry for "Cui" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
This pair ranks #18,978 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"cour" and "Cui" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "cour vs cower". Nearby pair
Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes

Confusion rank #18,978 of 530,003 scored English pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.