accourir

\a.ku.ʁiʁ\

/\a.ku.ʁiʁ\/ verb

The verdict

“accourir” is uncommon French (frequency #80,830 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#80,830
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Courir, venir promptement en un lieu où quelque chose ou quelqu’un nous attire.

Corpus desk

Index FR-accourir · accourir · French

accourir · rank #80,830 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #80,830
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH accepterez

Nearest frequency peer: accepterez (-1 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.

Rangs de longue queue près de « accourir »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « accourir » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for accourir
PropertyValue
Headwordaccourir
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\a.ku.ʁiʁ\
Letters8
Frequency rank#80,830
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « accourir » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.accourirtombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « accepterez » (#80,829), « accueillerait » (#80,831), « absout » (#80,828). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « accourir » est au #80,830. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

accourir is uncommon French at frequency #80,830 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \a.ku.ʁiʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Courir, venir promptement en un lieu où quelque chose ou quelqu’un nous attire.".

accourir has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is accourir, spelled A-C-C-O-U-R-I-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    Courir, venir promptement en un lieu où quelque chose ou quelqu’un nous attire.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how accourir appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Mais quand tout fut fini, les magnats accoururent des quatre coins de la Pologne, en qualité de sauveurs de la patrie. Les sauveurs sont la plaie des révolutions populaires.
  2. De tous les pays circonvoisins, des campagnes et des villes, malades et infirmes, paralytiques, culs-de-jatte et pieds-bots accouraient dans des carrioles, dans des calèches, sur des ânes, sur leurs moignons calleux.

Antonyms

This word in other languages

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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "accourir"?
"accourir" is spelled A-C-C-O-U-R-I-R. The IPA pronunciation is \a.ku.ʁiʁ\.
What does "accourir" mean?
As a verb, "accourir" means: Courir, venir promptement en un lieu où quelque chose ou quelqu’un nous attire.
How do you pronounce "accourir"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "accourir" is \a.ku.ʁiʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "accourir" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "accourir", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list