corse
/kɔɹs/obsolete
corse is spelled C-O-R-S-E: 5 letters and one syllable. It appears about once in every 4 million words in written English, the 60,074th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data, counting Corse, the name). People search “corse vs course” about 50 times a month (Google, United States). As a noun, corse means “A (living) body” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of corse is corses.
How many letters and syllables are in corse?
| Letters | 5: C-O-R-S-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 4 million words; the 60,074th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Pairs people search | |
| Sounds like | |
| Rhymes with | |
| Same letters |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is corse?
Corse appears about once in every 4 million words in written English, the 60,074th most frequent word form in the list. The list counts every capitalisation together, so this includes Corse, the name.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce corse?
- UK /kɔːs/
- US /kɔɹs/
Corse has one syllable (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Words people confuse with corse
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Sounds like: coarse, course (Wiktionary's homophone list; some hold only in some accents).
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What rhymes with corse?
8 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as corse from its last stressed vowel (/ɔɹs/):
Spelled with the same letters in another order: score.
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
What does corse mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
obsoleteA (living) body.
- 2
archaicA dead body, a corpse.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does corse come from?
From Middle English cors, from Old French cors, from Latin corpus (“body”). Doublet of corpus and corpse, and distantly of riff. Compare corset.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).