course

/\kuʁs\/ noun

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#1,059

in French word usage

Misspellings

8

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

course is aFrenchnoun. It means: Action de courir, mouvement de celui qui court. Pronounced \kuʁs\. It ranks #1,059 in French word frequency. Often confused with cure and cous.

Key facts for course
PropertyValue
Headwordcourse
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\kuʁs\
Letters6
Frequency rank#1,059
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of course in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for course is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kuʁs\. Corpus data places it at rank #1,059 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 12 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 course, with forms such as "ccourse", "coruse", and "coures". 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, "cure", "cous", "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. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is course, spelled C-O-U-R-S-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Action de courir, mouvement de celui qui court.
  2. 2
    Toute épreuve sportive où la vitesse est en jeu.
  3. 3
    Cours, mouvement apparent des astres.
  4. 4
    Actes d’hostilité que l’on faisait en courant les mers ou en entrant dans le pays ennemi. Note d’usage : On dit maintenant incursion, reconnaissance, pointe, etc.
  5. 5
    En parlant des corsaires, se disait des bâtiments armés en guerre par des particuliers et autorisés par un gouvernement à courir sur les navires marchands ennemis.
  6. 6
    Allées et venues, sorties que l’on fait dans la journée.
  7. 7
    Objet de ces allées et venues d’où achats, emplettes.
  8. 8
    Trajet que fait une voiture, une automobile de place en transportant une ou plusieurs personnes d’un lieu à un autre.
  9. 9
    Trajet parcouru ou à parcourir soit à pied, soit en voiture.
  10. 10
    Marche, progrès rapide d’une personne ou d’une chose.
  11. 11
    Distance comprise entre les deux points extrêmes du trajet parcouru par la tige d’un piston, par un tiroir de pompe, dans leur mouvement.
  12. 12
    Course de taureaux.

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ccourse,coruse,coures,courrse,coursse,cousre,cuorse,ocurse

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for course

Misspelling Variants of "course"

ccourse7coruse6coures6courrse7coursse7cousre6cuorse6ocurse6
Misspelling Variants of "course"

Frequency rank: #1,059 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "course"?
"course" is spelled C-O-U-R-S-E. The IPA pronunciation is \kuʁs\.
What does "course" mean?
As a noun, "course" means: Action de courir, mouvement de celui qui court.
What words are commonly confused with "course"?
"course" is commonly confused with "cure", "cous", "court". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "course"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "course" is \kuʁs\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "course" come from?
"course" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.