course
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.
| 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) |
Frequency rank visualization
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
- 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.
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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"
Frequency rank: #1,059 in French
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