corser
\kɔʁ.se\
The verdict
“corser” is uncommon French (frequency #65,815 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,815
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Donner du corps, rendre plus fort.
Corpus desk
Index FR-corser · corser · French
corser · rank #65,815 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,815
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH corrélées
Nearest frequency peer: corrélées (-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 « corser »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- contrepied
contrepied
34,191 corpus weight
- cordero
cordero
34,189 corpus weight
- corrélées
corrélées
34,187 corpus weight
- corser
corser
34,186 corpus weight
- cosmopolitan
cosmopolitan
34,184 corpus weight
- couillu
couillu
34,182 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « corser » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | corser |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kɔʁ.se\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #65,815 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « corser » en français
Rare enough to double-check
corser is uncommon French at frequency #65,815 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \kɔʁ.se\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for corser in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, 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 is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is corser, spelled C-O-R-S-E-R.
Definition
- 1Donner du corps, rendre plus fort.
- 2Rendre plus excitant.
- 3Rendre plus difficile.
- 4Devenir plus difficile.
- 5Trier des feuilles de tabac selon leur qualité et leur usage.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how corser appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Aujourd'hui, je médite; je me rappelle avoir été frappé, partout où je suis allé, d'apercevoir dans les débits, dès la première heure du matin, des masses de gens, hommes ou femmes, corsant leur café par des rasades d'eau-de-vie.
… il aurait fourni un renseignement d’une importance telle qu’il n’eût pas un seul instant senti le besoin de corser son envoi, de battre les buissons.
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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