courir sur l’haricot
\ku.ʁiʁ syʁ l‿a.ʁi.ko\
The verdict
“courir sur l’haricot” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 20
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Importuner, énerver, ennuyer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-courir-sur-l-haricot · courir sur l’haricot · French
courir sur l’haricot · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 20 letters
- VOW-7 7 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "C" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| 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) |
Longue queue: rang de « courir sur l’haricot » en français
Rare enough to double-check
courir sur l’haricot is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \ku.ʁiʁ syʁ l‿a.ʁi.ko\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how courir sur l’haricot appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le comptable avait l'air de dire que le père PM commençait à lui courir sur l’haricot^([sic]).
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.