courir sur l’haricot
\ku.ʁiʁ syʁ l‿a.ʁi.ko\
The verdict
“courir sur l’haricot” 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
- 20
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Importuner, énerver, ennuyer.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | courir sur l’haricot |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ku.ʁiʁ syʁ l‿a.ʁi.ko\ |
| Letters | 20 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “courir sur l’haricot” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for courir sur l’haricot is 20 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ku.ʁiʁ syʁ l‿a.ʁi.ko\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Importuner, énerver, ennuyer.".
courir sur l’haricot doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is courir sur l’haricot, spelled C-O-U-R-I-R- -S-U-R- -L-’-H-A-R-I-C-O-T.
Definition
- 1Importuner, énerver, ennuyer.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is C-O-U-R-I-R- -S-U-R- -L-’-H-A-R-I-C-O-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ku.ʁiʁ syʁ l‿a.ʁi.ko\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.