courir sur le haricot
\ku.ʁiʁ syʁ lə a.ʁi.ko\
The verdict
“courir sur le 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
- 21
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Ennuyer, embêter, énerver.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | courir sur le haricot |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ku.ʁiʁ syʁ lə a.ʁi.ko\ |
| Letters | 21 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “courir sur le haricot” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for courir sur le haricot is 21 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ku.ʁiʁ syʁ lə 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: "Ennuyer, embêter, énerver.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for courir sur le haricot, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is courir sur le haricot, spelled C-O-U-R-I-R- -S-U-R- -L-E- -H-A-R-I-C-O-T.
Definition
- 1Ennuyer, embêter, énerver.
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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-E- -H-A-R-I-C-O-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.