couroir
\ku.ʁwaʁ\
The verdict
“couroir” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Passage étroit entre des chambres.
Corpus desk
Index FR-couroir · couroir · French
couroir · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 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 | couroir |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ku.ʁwaʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « couroir » en français
Rare enough to double-check
couroir is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ku.ʁwaʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Passage étroit entre des chambres.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for couroir, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 couroir, spelled C-O-U-R-O-I-R.
Definition
- 1Passage étroit entre des chambres.
Synonyms
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.