cour de récréation
The verdict
“cour de récréation” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 18
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Lieu délimité, en plein air, dans un établissement scolaire, où les élèves peuvent se détendre lors des récréations.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cour de récréation |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kuʁ də ʁe.kʁe.a.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 18 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “cour de récréation” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for cour de récréation is 18 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kuʁ də ʁe.kʁe.a.sjɔ̃\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Lieu délimité, en plein air, dans un établissement scolaire, où les élèves peuvent se détendre lors des récréations.".
No misspelling variants are generated for cour de récréation in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 de récréation, spelled C-O-U-R- -D-E- -R-É-C-R-É-A-T-I-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Lieu délimité, en plein air, dans un établissement scolaire, où les élèves peuvent se détendre lors des récréations.
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- The one correct French spelling is C-O-U-R- -D-E- -R-É-C-R-É-A-T-I-O-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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