corse

/\kɔʁs\/ adj

Letters

5 characters

Frequency Rank

#2,992

in French word usage

Misspellings

7

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

corse is anFrenchadj. It means: Relatif à la Corse ou à ses habitants, sa langue, ou sa culture. Pronounced \kɔʁs\. It ranks #2,992 in French word frequency. Often confused with CRS and Cré.

Key facts for corse
PropertyValue
Headwordcorse
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdj
IPA\kɔʁs\
Letters5
Frequency rank#2,992
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of corse in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for corse is 5 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɔʁs\. Corpus data places it at rank #2,992 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Relatif à la Corse ou à ses habitants, sa langue, ou sa culture.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for corse, with forms such as "ccorse", "cores", and "corrse". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "CRS", "Cré", "côte", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is corse, spelled C-O-R-S-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Relatif à la Corse ou à ses habitants, sa langue, ou sa culture.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ccorse,cores,corrse,corsse,cosre,crose,ocrse

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for corse

Misspelling Variants of "corse"

ccorse6cores5corrse6corsse6cosre5crose5ocrse5
Misspelling Variants of "corse"

Frequency rank: #2,992 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "corse"?
"corse" is spelled C-O-R-S-E. The IPA pronunciation is \kɔʁs\.
What does "corse" mean?
As an adj, "corse" means: Relatif à la Corse ou à ses habitants, sa langue, ou sa culture.
What words are commonly confused with "corse"?
"corse" is commonly confused with "CRS", "Cré", "côte". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "corse"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "corse" is \kɔʁs\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "corse" come from?
"corse" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.