discours
"discours" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“discours” is uncommon English (frequency #94,777 among 3,470 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #94,777
- frequency rank, English
- 3,470
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Obsolete form of discourse.
Corpus desk
Index EN-discours · discours · English
discours · rank #94,777 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #94,777
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,470
- PHOTO-FINISH Disha
Nearest frequency peer: Disha (+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 “discours”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- dimmable
dimmable
5,228 corpus weight
- Dionysian
Dionysian
5,226 corpus weight
- discours
discours
5,224 corpus weight
- Disha
Disha
5,223 corpus weight
- dispiriting
dispiriting
5,221 corpus weight
- disputable
disputable
5,220 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “discours” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | discours |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #94,777 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “discours” in English
Rare enough to double-check
discours is uncommon English at frequency #94,777 among 3,470 “D” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Obsolete form of discourse.".
discours has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct English form is discours, spelled D-I-S-C-O-U-R-S.
Definition
- 1Obsolete form of discourse.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how discours appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
A SHORT DISCOURS Of the excellent Doctour and Knight,maiſter Leonardo phioravanti bolognese vppon Chirurgerie.
IOHN HVIGHEN VAN LINSCHOTEN. his Diſcours of Voyages into yͤ Easte & West Indies.
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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