courrier
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,393
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
courrier is aFrenchnoun. It means: ou Celui qui courait la poste en avant des voitures pour préparer les relais. Pronounced \ku.ʁje\. It ranks #3,393 in French word frequency. Often confused with couvrir and courtier.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | courrier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ku.ʁje\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #3,393 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for courrier is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ku.ʁje\. Corpus data places it at rank #3,393 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for courrier, with forms such as "ccourrier", "corurier", and "courirer". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "couvrir", "courtier", "courroie", 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. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is courrier, spelled C-O-U-R-R-I-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1ou Celui qui courait la poste en avant des voitures pour préparer les relais.
- 2Personne qui porte des dépêches.
- 3Celui qui portait les dépêches diplomatiques.
- 4Véhicule qui servait à transporter des lettres, des journaux, etc., pour le service postal.
- 5Poste, système de transmission de messages, de lettres, de journaux, d'écrits entre différents utilisateurs, en différé, par voie de terre, de fer ou par voie aérienne.
- 6Correspondance qu’on reçoit ou envoie par ce service.
- 7Titre de certains journaux.
- 8Article de journal, qui paraît régulièrement et qui est destiné à mettre au courant des théâtres, des sports, de la mode, du mouvement de la Bourse, etc.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccourrier,corurier,courirer,courreir,courrierr,courrire,cuorrier,ocurrier
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for courrier
Misspelling Variants of "courrier"
Frequency rank: #3,393 in French
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