course au clocher
Letters
17 characters
Language
French
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
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similar word pairs
course au clocher is aFrenchnoun. It 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.
| 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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The French entry for course au clocher is 17 letters long, classified as anoun. 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.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for course au clocher in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 au clocher, spelled C-O-U-R-S-E- -A-U- -C-L-O-C-H-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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.
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