courted vs courts, What's the Difference?

Which to use

“courted” is an adjective and “courts” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#33,593
“courted” frequency rank: #3,224
“courts” frequency rank: 36817
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	courted	courts
Definition	Romantically pursued; wooed.	plural of court

Letter map: courted vs courts

Shared letters muted; letters that set courted and courts apart highlighted. Shared run: 5.

7 ch

courted

6 ch

courts

Part-of-speech tell for courted / courts

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: courted is anadjective and courtsanoun. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 36817, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

courted is recorded at frequency rank #33,593, classified as anadj. courts is at rank #3,224, tagged as anoun, pronounced /kɔɹts/.

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 36817, this pair ranks #299,911 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of courted vs courts

Shared letters: cortu. Private to "courted": de. Private to "courts": s.

"courted" · 7 letters · shape CVVCCVC · "courts" · 6 letters · shape CVVCCC

Known mistypes of this pair

courted ← ccourted · coruted · couretd · courrted · courtde · courtedd · courtted · coutred
courts ← ccourts · coruts · courrts · courst · courtss · courtts · coutrs · cuorts

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "courted" and "courts" mean the same thing in a sentence?

No - they are not even the same part of speech. "courted" is an adjective and "courts" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.

Which is more common, "courted" or "courts"?

"courts" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #3,224 in our English list, against #33,593 for "courted". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

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Full dictionary entry for "courted" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
Full dictionary entry for "courts" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
This pair ranks #299,911 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"courted" and "courts" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "courted vs crusted". 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 #299,911 of 530,003 scored English pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.