courait

\ku.ʁɛ\

/\ku.ʁɛ\/ verb

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The verdict

“courait” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #19,795. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#19,795
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords
8
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de courir.

Corpus desk

Index FR-courait · courait · French

courait · rank #19,795 · 8 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #19,795
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 8 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH Corrèze

Nearest frequency peer: Corrèze (-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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « courait »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « courait » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

courait vs court
71% similar
courait vs courir
71% similar
courait vs courut
71% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for courait
PropertyValue
Headwordcourait
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\ku.ʁɛ\
Letters7
Frequency rank#19,795
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « courait »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.couraitse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « Corrèze » (#19,794), « courtiers » (#19,796), « convoque » (#19,793). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « courait » est au #19,795. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 8 spelling variants around courait (IPA \ku.ʁɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #19,795 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de courir.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for courait, with forms such as "ccourait", "coruait", and "couarit". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "court", "courir", "courut", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is courait, spelled C-O-U-R-A-I-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de courir.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how courait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Dans un carrosse qui conduisit le prince et ses « roués » pour un souper à Saint-Cloud, l’un d’eux voulut savoir ce qu’il fallait penser du bruit qui courait.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ccourait
  • coruait
  • couarit
  • couraitt
  • courati
  • couriat
  • cuorait
  • ocurait

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of courait - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

ccourait1coruait2couarit2couraitt1courati2couriat2cuorait2ocurait2
Edit distance from "courait"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "courait"?
"courait" is spelled C-O-U-R-A-I-T. The IPA pronunciation is \ku.ʁɛ\.
What does "courait" mean?
As a verb, "courait" means: Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de courir.
What words are commonly confused with "courait"?
"courait" is commonly confused with "court", "courir", "courut". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "courait"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "courait" is \ku.ʁɛ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "courait" come from?
"courait" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "courait", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Corrèze#19,794devrons#19,804déserts#19,819détecte#19,821

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).

crêpe8 variantscalice8 variantsboutin8 variantsbouffée8 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list