couratte
\ku.ʁat\
The verdict
“couratte” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Jeu d’enfant qui consiste à se poursuivre les uns et les autres.
Corpus desk
Index FR-couratte · couratte · French
couratte · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 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 | couratte |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ku.ʁat\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « couratte » en français
Rare enough to double-check
couratte is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ku.ʁat\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Jeu d’enfant qui consiste à se poursuivre les uns et les autres.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for couratte, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is couratte, spelled C-O-U-R-A-T-T-E.
Definition
- 1Jeu d’enfant qui consiste à se poursuivre les uns et les autres.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how couratte appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les enfants Rossi jouaient à la couratte dans la chambre.
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.