au gré du courant
\o ɡʁe dy ku.ʁɑ̃\
The verdict
“au gré du courant” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 17
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Synonyme de au fil de l’eau.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | au gré du courant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \o ɡʁe dy ku.ʁɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “au gré du courant” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
au gré du courant is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadverb, transcribed \o ɡʁe dy ku.ʁɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Synonyme de au fil de l’eau.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for au gré du courant in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is au gré du courant, spelled A-U- -G-R-É- -D-U- -C-O-U-R-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Synonyme de au fil de l’eau.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “au gré du courant”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is A-U- -G-R-É- -D-U- -C-O-U-R-A-N-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \o ɡʁe dy ku.ʁɑ̃\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.