course
\kuʁs\
The verdict
“course” is a regularly-used French word, ranked #1,059 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #1,059
- frequency rank, French
- 6
- letters
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Action de courir, mouvement de celui qui court.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | course |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kuʁs\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #1,059 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “course” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for course is 6 letters long, classified as a noun, 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 generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for course, with forms such as "ccourse", "coruse", and "coures". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, 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 documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is course, spelled C-O-U-R-S-E.
Definition
- 1Action de courir, mouvement de celui qui court.
- 2Toute épreuve sportive où la vitesse est en jeu.
- 3Cours, mouvement apparent des astres.
- 4Actes 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.
- 5En 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.
- 6Allées et venues, sorties que l’on fait dans la journée.
- 7Objet de ces allées et venues d’où achats, emplettes.
- 8Trajet que fait une voiture, une automobile de place en transportant une ou plusieurs personnes d’un lieu à un autre.
- 9Trajet parcouru ou à parcourir soit à pied, soit en voiture.
- 10Marche, progrès rapide d’une personne ou d’une chose.
- 11Distance comprise entre les deux points extrêmes du trajet parcouru par la tige d’un piston, par un tiroir de pompe, dans leur mouvement.
- 12Course de taureaux.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccourse,coruse,coures,courrse,coursse,cousre,cuorse,ocurse
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of course - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Using “course”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is C-O-U-R-S-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \kuʁs\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “cure” - see the side-by-side comparison. course vs cure
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.