coure

\kuʁ\

/\kuʁ\/ verb

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The verdict

“coure” is uncommon French (frequency #51,985 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#51,985
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de courir.

Corpus desk

Index FR-coure · coure · French

coure · rank #51,985 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #51,985
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH couchettes

Nearest frequency peer: couchettes (-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 « coure »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « coure » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for coure
PropertyValue
Headwordcoure
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\kuʁ\
Letters5
Frequency rank#51,985
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « coure » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.couretombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Voisins rares de la même bande: « couchettes » (#51,984), « courons » (#51,986), « coronaire » (#51,982). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « coure » est au #51,985. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

coure is uncommon French at frequency #51,985 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \kuʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.

coure doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is coure, spelled C-O-U-R-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Première personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de courir.
  2. 2
    Troisième personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de courir.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how coure appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. — Parce qu’on me croit mort, que j’ai des raisons pour désirer qu’on ne sache pas que je vis, et que je vais être obligé de vous tuer pour que mon secret ne coure pas les champs.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "coure"?
"coure" is spelled C-O-U-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is \kuʁ\.
What does "coure" mean?
As a verb, "coure" means: Première personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de courir.
How do you pronounce "coure"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "coure" is \kuʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "coure" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "coure", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

crase#51,990codée#51,965charm#51,954carat#51,945

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list