coureuse
\ku.ʁøz\
The verdict
“coureuse” is uncommon French (frequency #64,346 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,346
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celle qui se livre à l’exercice de la course.
Corpus desk
Index FR-coureuse · coureuse · French
coureuse · rank #64,346 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,346
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH coupeur
Nearest frequency peer: coupeur (-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 « coureuse »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cottages
cottages
35,658 corpus weight
- coupeur
coupeur
35,656 corpus weight
- coureuse
coureuse
35,655 corpus weight
- couvée
couvée
35,654 corpus weight
- crashs
crashs
35,653 corpus weight
- cristallins
cristallins
35,651 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « coureuse » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | coureuse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ku.ʁøz\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #64,346 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « coureuse » en français
Rare enough to double-check
coureuse is uncommon French at frequency #64,346 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ku.ʁøz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for coureuse in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is coureuse, spelled C-O-U-R-E-U-S-E.
Definition
- 1Celle qui se livre à l’exercice de la course.
- 2Celle qui dispute le prix dans une course à pied, à bicyclette ou à cheval.
- 3Celle qui va et vient, qui est souvent par la ville ou en voyage.
- 4Celle qui aime à séduire en quantité.
- 5Chariot se déplaçant sur rail d’une machine à faire les cordes.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how coureuse appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La championne Paula Radcliffe estime que les courtes distances ont l’avantage d’être accessibles à plus de coureuses.
Même si on a une pression forte au niveau du staff, on doit l’isoler de nos coureuses, pour qu’elles soient concentrées sur leurs performances, décrit également Stephen Delcourt, manager général de l’équipe féminine FDJ-Nouvelle-Aquitaine.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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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