cours
noun
cours is spelled C-O-U-R-S: 5 letters. It appears about once in every 3 million words in written English, the 47,633rd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, cours means “three-month unit of television broadcasting corresponding to a natural season” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in cours?
| Letters | 5: C-O-U-R-S |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 3 million words; the 47,633rd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Same letters |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is cours?
Cours appears about once in every 3 million words in written English, the 47,633rd most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Words people confuse with cours
Also written: course.
Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What rhymes with cours?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as cours.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: scour.
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 cours mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
three-month unit of television broadcasting corresponding to a natural season.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does cours come from?
From French cours in analogy to Japanese クール (kūru), originally singular (as dictated by Anime News Network for example) but later reanalyzed as a plural form.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).