courrier
[ku.ʁje]
The verdict
“courrier” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #79,938 among 8,288 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,938
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Correo.
Corpus desk
Index ES-courrier · courrier · Spanish
courrier · rank #79,938 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,938
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH cortemos
Nearest frequency peer: cortemos (-2 rank slots)
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.
Rangos de cola larga cerca de “courrier”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- corregía
corregía
20,067 corpus weight
- corruption
corruption
20,066 corpus weight
- cortemos
cortemos
20,065 corpus weight
- courrier
courrier
20,063 corpus weight
- Cremona
Cremona
20,061 corpus weight
- cuadraba
cuadraba
20,059 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “courrier” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | courrier |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ku.ʁje] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #79,938 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “courrier” en español
Rare enough to double-check
courrier is uncommon Spanish at frequency #79,938 among 8,288 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ku.ʁje]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Correo.".
courrier doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Spanish form is courrier, spelled C-O-U-R-R-I-E-R.
Definition
- 1Correo.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how courrier appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Tu as reçu du courrier.
Synonyms
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 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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