courge
French, noun/kuʁʒ/
courge is spelled C-O-U-R-G-E (6 letters) and appears 1.0 times per million words in written French, the 30,509th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Courge is a French feminine noun meaning “marrow (UK; vegetable), vegetable marrow (UK), marrow squash (US)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Genre de plantes de la famille des Cucurbitacées (Cucurbitaceae)”.
What does courge mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininemarrow (UK; vegetable), vegetable marrow (UK), marrow squash (US)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Genre de plantes de la famille des Cucurbitacées (Cucurbitaceae). 2. Fruit comestible de ces plantes. 3. Tête. 4. Imbécile.
noun: 1. Bâton de bois servant de balancier à l’aide duquel on peut porter deux charges, deux seaux sur l’épaule. 2. Corbeau de pierre qui supporte le manteau d’une cheminée sans chambranle.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of courge
- courges plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce courge?
- /kuʁʒ/
- \kuʁʒ\
- [kuʁʒ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to courge
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is courge in French?
courge appears 1.0 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).