court
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Detailed reference entry for the English word "court", 5-letters, with pronunciation in International Phonetic Alphabet notation, etymology traced through Germanic and Romance roots where applicable, common misspelling variants catalogued from Hunspell error dictionaries, and usage frequency ranked against the top 100,000 English words in the Wordfreq corpus. PlainSpell covers English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German spelling with confusable-pair detection that highlights visually and phonetically similar words. This entry for "court" includes synonyms, antonyms, homophones, and cross-language translation pointers sourced from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org extract. Whether you are verifying the correct spelling of "court" for academic writing, checking homophone confusion, or exploring etymological origins, this page provides a citation-backed, free reference that requires no sign-up.
court is aEnglishnoun. It means: An enclosed space; a courtyard; an uncovered area shut in by the walls of a building, or by different buildings; also, a space opening from a street and nearly surrounded by houses; a blind alley. Pronounced /kɔːt/. It ranks #370 in English word frequency. Often confused with cut and CRT.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | court |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /kɔːt/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #370 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for court is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /kɔːt/. Corpus data places it at rank #370 in overall English word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 17 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for court, with forms such as "ccourt", "corut", and "courrt". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "cut", "CRT", "cur", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English court, from Old French cort, curt, from Late Latin cōrs, contracted from Latin cohors. Doublet of cohort. A court (noun sense 4.2) assembled to hear the testimony of Charles Lindbergh. The room is also a court (noun sense 4.1). Professio… Root origin matters for spelling because borrowed morphemes (Greek, Latin, Old French, Old English) carry their source-language orthographic conventions into modern English, which is why historical etymology is often the cleanest predictor of whether a cluster like "-ough", "-eau", or "-tion" will appear. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct English form is court, spelled C-O-U-R-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1An enclosed space; a courtyard; an uncovered area shut in by the walls of a building, or by different buildings; also, a space opening from a street and nearly surrounded by houses; a blind alley.
- 2An enclosed space; a courtyard; an uncovered area shut in by the walls of a building, or by different buildings; also, a space opening from a street and nearly surrounded by houses; a blind alley.
- 3An enclosed space; a courtyard; an uncovered area shut in by the walls of a building, or by different buildings; also, a space opening from a street and nearly surrounded by houses; a blind alley.
- 4An enclosed space; a courtyard; an uncovered area shut in by the walls of a building, or by different buildings; also, a space opening from a street and nearly surrounded by houses; a blind alley.
- 5Royal society.
- 6Royal society.
- 7Royal society.
- 8Attention directed to a person in power; behaviour designed to gain favor; politeness of manner; civility towards someone.
- 9The administration of law.
- 10The administration of law.
- 11The administration of law.
- 12The administration of law.
- 13The administration of law.
- 14The administration of law.
- 15A place arranged for playing the games of tennis, basketball, handball, badminton, volleyball, squash and some other games
- 16A place arranged for playing the games of tennis, basketball, handball, badminton, volleyball, squash and some other games
- 17A space prepared and decorated by certain bird species in which to advertise themselves for a mate.
Etymology
From Middle English court, from Old French cort, curt, from Late Latin cōrs, contracted from Latin cohors. Doublet of cohort. A court (noun sense 4.2) assembled to hear the testimony of Charles Lindbergh. The room is also a court (noun sense 4.1). Professional tennis players playing on a tennis court (noun sense 5) in New Delhi, India
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccourt,corut,courrt,courtt,coutr,cuort,ocurt
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for court
Misspelling Variants of "court"
Frequency rank: #370 in English
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