courre

\kuʁ\

/\kuʁ\/ verb

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The verdict

“courre” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #38,733. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#38,733
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords
6
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Forme ancienne de courir jusqu’au XIIIᵉ siècle.

Corpus desk

Index FR-courre · courre · French

courre · rank #38,733 · 6 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #38,733
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 6 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH costauds

Nearest frequency peer: costauds (-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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « courre »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « courre » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

courre vs cure
67% similar
courre vs cours
67% similar
courre vs court
67% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for courre
PropertyValue
Headwordcourre
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\kuʁ\
Letters6
Frequency rank#38,733
Misspellings tracked6
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « courre »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).courrese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « costauds » (#38,732), « cous » (#38,734), « couvreur » (#38,735). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « courre » est au #38,733. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 6 spelling variants around courre (IPA \kuʁ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #38,733 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for courre, with forms such as "ccourre", "corure", and "coure". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "cure", "cours", "court", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, 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 courre, spelled C-O-U-R-R-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Forme ancienne de courir jusqu’au XIIIᵉ siècle.
  2. 2
    Courir.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how courre appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. La mutilation des chiens qui pouvaient être à la garde des troupeaux, et qui avait pour but de les empêcher de courre le daim, s’appelait lawing et était d’un usage général.
  2. Charles comptait rencontrer cent personnes chez son oncle, chasser à courre dans les forêts de son oncle, y vivre enfin de la vie de château.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ccourre
  • corure
  • coure
  • courer
  • cuorre
  • ocurre

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of courre - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

ccourre1corure2coure1courer2cuorre2ocurre2
Edit distance from "courre"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "courre"?
"courre" is spelled C-O-U-R-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is \kuʁ\.
What does "courre" mean?
As a verb, "courre" means: Forme ancienne de courir jusqu’au XIIIᵉ siècle.
What words are commonly confused with "courre"?
"courre" is commonly confused with "cure", "cours", "court". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "courre"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "courre" is \kuʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "courre" come from?
"courre" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "courre", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

corbin#38,729dieter#38,750Comeau#38,712dramas#38,759

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).

céda6 variantsEaton6 variantsbills6 variantsfacs6 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list