courrais
\kuʁ.ʁɛ\
The verdict
“courrais” is uncommon French (frequency #71,394 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,394
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier du conditionnel de courir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-courrais · courrais · French
courrais · rank #71,394 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,394
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH coupante
Nearest frequency peer: coupante (-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 « courrais »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- costumière
costumière
28,609 corpus weight
- coupante
coupante
28,608 corpus weight
- courrais
courrais
28,607 corpus weight
- courser
courser
28,606 corpus weight
- couvait
couvait
28,605 corpus weight
- couvrit
couvrit
28,604 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « courrais » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | courrais |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kuʁ.ʁɛ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #71,394 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « courrais » en français
Rare enough to double-check
courrais is uncommon French at frequency #71,394 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \kuʁ.ʁɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for courrais, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is courrais, spelled C-O-U-R-R-A-I-S.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier du conditionnel de courir.
- 2Deuxième personne du singulier du conditionnel de courir.
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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