cour
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#669
in French word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
cour is aFrenchnoun. It means: Espace découvert qui dépend d’une maison, d’un hôtel, etc., et qui est entouré de murs ou de bâtiments. Pronounced \kuʁ\. It ranks #669 in French word frequency. Often confused with CR and cul.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cour |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kuʁ\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #669 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for cour is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kuʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #669 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for cour, with forms such as "ccour", "coru", and "courr". 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, "CR", "cul", "cru", 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 cour, spelled C-O-U-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Espace découvert qui dépend d’une maison, d’un hôtel, etc., et qui est entouré de murs ou de bâtiments.
- 2Les maisons disposant d’une cour étant, par le passé, celles de personnages importants ou d’institutions, la cour désigne les assemblées qui s’y réunissent (cour du roi, cour de justice…), les dignitaires et autres personnes qui forment l’entourage habituel d’un souverain, la suite d’un grand seigneur, d’un prince. Se disait aussi des assemblées de vassaux que tenait le roi dans sa résidence.
- 3Entourage d’une personne, gens empressés à lui plaire.
- 4Le souverain et ses ministres ; le gouvernement d’une monarchie.
- 5Respects que l’on rend à une personne, assiduités que l’on a auprès d’elle, en vue de lui plaire, d’obtenir sa bienveillance, etc.
- 6Tribunal supérieur.
- 7Tribunal.
- 8Côté cour.
- 9Récréation.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccour,coru,courr,cuor,ocur
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for cour
Misspelling Variants of "cour"
Frequency rank: #669 in French
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Nearby French words
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