courgette
/kʊɚˈʒɛt/
"courgette" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“courgette” is uncommon English (frequency #75,767 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,767
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A particular variety of Cucurbita pepo, a small marrow/squash.
Corpus desk
Index EN-courgette · courgette · English
courgette · rank #75,767 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,767
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH cosmopolitani…
Nearest frequency peer: cosmopolitanism (-2 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Long-tail ranks near “courgette”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- coromandel
coromandel
24,240 corpus weight
- Corre
Corre
24,239 corpus weight
- corruptly
corruptly
24,238 corpus weight
- cosmodrome
cosmodrome
24,237 corpus weight
- cosmopolita…
cosmopolitanism
24,236 corpus weight
- courgette
courgette
24,234 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “courgette” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | courgette |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /kʊɚˈʒɛt/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #75,767 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “courgette” in English
Rare enough to double-check
courgette is uncommon English at frequency #75,767 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /kʊɚˈʒɛt/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for courgette, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: Unadapted borrowing from French courgette, diminutive of courge (“vegetable marrow, marrow squash”). Ultimately related to zucchini through Latin cucurbita. The correct English form is courgette, spelled C-O-U-R-G-E-T-T-E.
Definition
- 1A particular variety of Cucurbita pepo, a small marrow/squash.
- 2The edible fruit of this marrow/squash.
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from French courgette, diminutive of courge (“vegetable marrow, marrow squash”). Ultimately related to zucchini through Latin cucurbita.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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