Courcy
\kuʁ.si\
The verdict
“Courcy” is uncommon French (frequency #55,858 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,858
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune française, située dans le département du Calvados.
Corpus desk
Index FR-courcy · Courcy · French
Courcy · rank #55,858 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,858
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH coupler
Nearest frequency peer: coupler (-1 rank slots)
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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « Courcy »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- contredite
contredite
44,147 corpus weight
- Corbett
Corbett
44,146 corpus weight
- coupler
coupler
44,144 corpus weight
- Courcy
Courcy
44,143 corpus weight
- craches
craches
44,141 corpus weight
- craquante
craquante
44,140 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Courcy » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Courcy |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \kuʁ.si\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #55,858 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Courcy » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Courcy is uncommon French at frequency #55,858 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \kuʁ.si\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Courcy, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is Courcy, spelled C-O-U-R-C-Y.
Definition
- 1Commune française, située dans le département du Calvados.
- 2Forme abrégée du nom de Courcy-aux-Loges, commune française située dans le département du Loiret.
- 3Commune française, située dans le département de la Manche.
- 4Commune française, située dans le département de la Marne.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Courcy appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Jamais il n’en avait tant vu et tant ramassé. Toutes les routes du pays, de Courcy à Fay-aux-Loges, de Bois-Commun à Combreux et de Bellegarde à Châteauneuf, en étaient remplies, sans parler des chemins ou allées sous bois dont cette partie de la grande forêt d’Orléans est sillonnée dans tous les sens.
Je viens de Courcy.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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