cour martiale
\kuʁ maʁ.sjal\
The verdict
“cour martiale” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Tribunal d’exception qui exerce la justice militaire (principalement en temps de guerre).
Corpus desk
Index FR-cour-martiale · cour martiale · French
cour martiale · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "C" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cour martiale |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kuʁ maʁ.sjal\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “cour martiale” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
cour martiale is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \kuʁ maʁ.sjal\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Tribunal d’exception qui exerce la justice militaire (principalement en temps de guerre).".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for cour martiale, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is cour martiale, spelled C-O-U-R- -M-A-R-T-I-A-L-E.
Definition
- 1Tribunal d’exception qui exerce la justice militaire (principalement en temps de guerre).
This word in other languages
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