courir le cachet
The verdict
“courir le cachet” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a verb — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 16
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Pour un comédien, chercher à obtenir des rôles au théâtre ou au cinéma.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | courir le cachet |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ku.ʁiʁ lə ka.ʃɛ\ |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “courir le cachet” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for courir le cachet is 16 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ku.ʁiʁ lə ka.ʃɛ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for courir le cachet in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is courir le cachet, spelled C-O-U-R-I-R- -L-E- -C-A-C-H-E-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Pour un comédien, chercher à obtenir des rôles au théâtre ou au cinéma.
- 2Pour un enseignant, chercher à donner des leçons particulières.
- 3Rechercher des travaux rémunérés.
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Using “courir le cachet”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is C-O-U-R-I-R- -L-E- -C-A-C-H-E-T — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ku.ʁiʁ lə ka.ʃɛ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Nearby French words
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