courant continu
\ku.ʁɑ̃ kɔ̃.ti.ny\
The verdict
“courant continu” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Courant électrique de sens invariable.
Corpus desk
Index FR-courant-continu · courant continu · French
courant continu · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 15 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 | courant continu |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ku.ʁɑ̃ kɔ̃.ti.ny\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « courant continu » en français
Rare enough to double-check
courant continu is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ku.ʁɑ̃ kɔ̃.ti.ny\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Courant électrique de sens invariable.".
No misspelling variants are generated for courant continu in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is courant continu, spelled C-O-U-R-A-N-T- -C-O-N-T-I-N-U.
Definition
- 1Courant électrique de sens invariable.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how courant continu appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les électro-aimants inducteurs N, S, N, S, etc., sont pourvus d'un enroulement de fil unique, dont le sens alterne de l'un à l'autre; les noyaux de ces electros sont en fer doux ou en fonte; le courant d'excitation est fourni par une petite dynamo à courant continu, du type supérieur Gramme, montée sur le même arbre que l'inducteur de l'alternateur.
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