course à pied
\kuʁ.s‿a pje\
The verdict
“course à pied” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sport consistant à courir à pied, avec ou sans chaussures.
Corpus desk
Index FR-course-a-pied · course à pied · French
course à pied · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "C" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | course à pied |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kuʁ.s‿a pje\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
course à pied is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \kuʁ.s‿a pje\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Sport consistant à courir à pied, avec ou sans chaussures.".
course à pied has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is course à pied, spelled C-O-U-R-S-E- -À- -P-I-E-D.
Definition
- 1Sport consistant à courir à pied, avec ou sans chaussures.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how course à pied appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mimoun était un grand champion de la course à pied.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.