courant électrique

/\ku.ʁɑ̃ e.lɛk.tʁik\/ noun

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.

Key facts for courant électrique
PropertyValue
Headwordcourant électrique
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ku.ʁɑ̃ e.lɛk.tʁik\
Letters18
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “courant électrique” sits in French frequency

courant électrique falls outside the top-100,000 ranked French words — the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    Passage de l’électricité à travers un conducteur.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "courant électrique"?
"courant électrique" is spelled C-O-U-R-A-N-T- -É-L-E-C-T-R-I-Q-U-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ku.ʁɑ̃ e.lɛk.tʁik\.
What does "courant électrique" mean?
As a noun, "courant électrique" means: Passage de l’électricité à travers un conducteur.
How do you pronounce "courant électrique"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "courant électrique" is \ku.ʁɑ̃ e.lɛk.tʁik\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "courant électrique" come from?
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Using “courant électrique”

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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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.