Courlande
\kuʁ.lɑ̃d\
The verdict
“Courlande” is uncommon French (frequency #76,464 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,464
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Région occidentale de la Lettonie, située sur la mer Baltique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-courlande · Courlande · French
Courlande · rank #76,464 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,464
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH couchaient
Nearest frequency peer: couchaient (-1 rank slots)
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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « Courlande »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- corrosifs
corrosifs
23,540 corpus weight
- corticale
corticale
23,539 corpus weight
- couchaient
couchaient
23,538 corpus weight
- Courlande
Courlande
23,537 corpus weight
- courues
courues
23,536 corpus weight
- couvreurs
couvreurs
23,535 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Courlande » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Courlande |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \kuʁ.lɑ̃d\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #76,464 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Courlande » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Courlande is uncommon French at frequency #76,464 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \kuʁ.lɑ̃d\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Région occidentale de la Lettonie, située sur la mer Baltique.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Courlande, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is Courlande, spelled C-O-U-R-L-A-N-D-E.
Definition
- 1Région occidentale de la Lettonie, située sur la mer Baltique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Courlande appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le duché de Courlande.
CURLANDE ou COURLANDE, (Géog. mod.) province avec titre de duché, dans la Livonie, sous la protection de la Pologne. Il est borné par la Livonie, la Lithuanie, la Samogitie, & la mer Baltique. Ce pays se divise en deux parties, la Courlande & le Semigalle. Ce pays est fertile. Mittau en est la capitale.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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