courrières
\ku.ʁjɛʁ\
The verdict
“courrières” is uncommon French (frequency #98,919 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #98,919
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de courrière.
Corpus desk
Index FR-courrieres · courrières · French
courrières · rank #98,919 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #98,919
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cosmétologie
Nearest frequency peer: cosmétologie (-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 « courrières »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cordouan
cordouan
1,087 corpus weight
- cornières
cornières
1,086 corpus weight
- corresponde…
correspondence
1,084 corpus weight
- cosmétologie
cosmétologie
1,083 corpus weight
- courrières
courrières
1,082 corpus weight
- creeper
creeper
1,078 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « courrières » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | courrières |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ku.ʁjɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #98,919 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « courrières » en français
Rare enough to double-check
courrières is uncommon French at frequency #98,919 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ku.ʁjɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de courrière.".
Zero misspellings are on record for courrières in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is courrières, spelled C-O-U-R-R-I-È-R-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de courrière.
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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