course au clocher

noun

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The verdict

“course au clocher” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.

Unranked
below top-frequency French
17
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 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.

Key facts for course au clocher
PropertyValue
Headwordcourse au clocher
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
Letters17
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “course au clocher” sits in French frequency

course au clocher falls outside the top-100,000 ranked French words, the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for course au clocher is 17 letters long, classified as a noun. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

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

  1. 1
    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.
  2. 2
    Compétition ardente, d'efforts passionnés vers un but.
  3. 3
    Synonyme de steeple-chase.
  4. 4
    Voyage long et mouvementé.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "course au clocher"?
"course au clocher" is spelled C-O-U-R-S-E- -A-U- -C-L-O-C-H-E-R.
What does "course au clocher" mean?
As a noun, "course au clocher" means: 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.
What language does "course au clocher" come from?
"course au clocher" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Using “course au clocher”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct French spelling is C-O-U-R-S-E- -A-U- -C-L-O-C-H-E-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • 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.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list FrequencyWords open word-frequency list