course au clocher
The verdict
“course au clocher” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 17
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Course à travers champs, où l'on se dirige à vue de clocher, en franchissant tous les obstacles qu'on rencontre devant soi pour arriver au but le premier.
Corpus desk
Index FR-course-au-clocher · course au clocher · French
course au clocher · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 17 letters
- VOW-7 7 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 au clocher |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
course au clocher is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for course au clocher in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is course au clocher, spelled C-O-U-R-S-E- -A-U- -C-L-O-C-H-E-R.
Definition
- 1Course à travers champs, où l'on se dirige à vue de clocher, en franchissant tous les obstacles qu'on rencontre devant soi pour arriver au but le premier.
- 2Compétition ardente, d'efforts passionnés vers un but.
- 3Synonyme de steeple-chase.
- 4Voyage long et mouvementé.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how course au clocher appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La place est bonne, c'est une course au clocher pour l'obtenir.
Après avoir avalé quelques garbanzos qui sonnaient dans nos ventres comme des grains de plomb dans des tambours de basque, nous rentrâmes dans notre boîte, et la course au clocher recommença.
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.