courant électrique
The verdict
“courant électrique” 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
- 18
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Passage de l’électricité à travers un conducteur.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | courant électrique |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ku.ʁɑ̃ e.lɛk.tʁik\ |
| Letters | 18 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “courant électrique” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for courant électrique is 18 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ku.ʁɑ̃ e.lɛk.tʁik\. 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: "Passage de l’électricité à travers un conducteur.".
No misspelling variants are generated for courant électrique 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 courant électrique, spelled C-O-U-R-A-N-T- -É-L-E-C-T-R-I-Q-U-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Passage de l’électricité à travers un conducteur.
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The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is C-O-U-R-A-N-T- -É-L-E-C-T-R-I-Q-U-E — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ku.ʁɑ̃ e.lɛk.tʁik\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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