Cour des comptes
The verdict
“Cour des comptes” 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
- 16
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Cour supérieure établie pour examiner et juger les comptes de ceux qui ont manié les deniers de l’État.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Cour des comptes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kuʁ de kɔ̃t\ |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Cour des comptes” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for Cour des comptes is 16 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kuʁ de kɔ̃t\. 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: "Cour supérieure établie pour examiner et juger les comptes de ceux qui ont manié les deniers de l’État.".
No misspelling variants are generated for Cour des comptes 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 des comptes, spelled C-O-U-R- -D-E-S- -C-O-M-P-T-E-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Cour supérieure établie pour examiner et juger les comptes de ceux qui ont manié les deniers de l’État.
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- The one correct French spelling is C-O-U-R- -D-E-S- -C-O-M-P-T-E-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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