cursus
"cursus" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“cursus” is uncommon English (frequency #89,271 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,271
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A course; a journey or progression.
Corpus desk
Index EN-cursus · cursus · English
cursus · rank #89,271 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,271
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH Cudahy
Nearest frequency peer: Cudahy (-1 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 “cursus”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- cruddy
cruddy
10,734 corpus weight
- cryogenics
cryogenics
10,733 corpus weight
- cubical
cubical
10,732 corpus weight
- Cudahy
Cudahy
10,731 corpus weight
- cursus
cursus
10,730 corpus weight
- curtsy
curtsy
10,729 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “cursus” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cursus |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #89,271 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “cursus” in English
Rare enough to double-check
cursus is uncommon English at frequency #89,271 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for cursus in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: Learned borrowing from Latin cursus. Doublet of course and cour. The correct English form is cursus, spelled C-U-R-S-U-S.
Definition
- 1A course; a journey or progression.
- 2A long ditch or trench of unknown function, constructed in Neolithic Britain and Ireland.
- 3A racecourse.
- 4An academic curriculum.
- 5A form of daily prayer or service.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how cursus appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
His cursus from Fréjus to Paris turned into a triumphal march, with whole towns and villages staging ceremonial entrées for him and cheering his passage.
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin cursus. Doublet of course and cour.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).