accourir
\a.ku.ʁiʁ\
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
- abrogées
abrogées
19,174 corpus weight
- absout
absout
19,173 corpus weight
- accepterez
accepterez
19,172 corpus weight
- accourir
accourir
19,171 corpus weight
- accueillera…
accueillerait
19,170 corpus weight
- affilés
affilés
19,169 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « accourir » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | accourir |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.ku.ʁiʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #80,830 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « accourir » en français
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
- 1Courir, venir promptement en un lieu où quelque chose ou quelqu’un nous attire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how accourir appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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.
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.
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.
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