courant d’air
\ku.ʁɑ̃ d‿ɛʁ\
The verdict
“courant d’air” 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 September 3, 2026) - Se dit du vent lorsque, traversant un espace resserré, il souffle d’une manière continue.
Corpus desk
Index FR-courant-d-air · courant d’air · French
courant d’air · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-5 5 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 d’air |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ku.ʁɑ̃ d‿ɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
courant d’air is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ku.ʁɑ̃ d‿ɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for courant d’air in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is courant d’air, spelled C-O-U-R-A-N-T- -D-’-A-I-R.
Definition
- 1Se dit du vent lorsque, traversant un espace resserré, il souffle d’une manière continue.
- 2Mouvement qui influence, qui emporte.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how courant d’air appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il faisait ce soir-là un froid polaire, les coulisses avec leurs courants d’air étaient glaciales ; tous les histrions se pressaient devant un feu de coke qui flambait dans la cheminée.
Si, en effet, le pankah s’arrête, notre Européen sybarite qui, lui, dort à poings fermés, est bientôt en transpiration, et quand le boy, réveillé ou remplacé, reprendra sa besogne, une bronchite, voire une pleurésie, descendra sur l’aile du bienfaisant courant d’air.
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.