course de chevaux
\kuʁs də ʃə.vo\
The verdict
“course de chevaux” 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 de vitesse opposant des chevaux de course, en principe montés ou guidés par des jockeys.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | course de chevaux |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kuʁs də ʃə.vo\ |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “course de chevaux” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for course de chevaux is 17 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kuʁs də ʃə.vo\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Course de vitesse opposant des chevaux de course, en principe montés ou guidés par des jockeys.".
No misspelling variants are generated for course de chevaux in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. 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 de chevaux, spelled C-O-U-R-S-E- -D-E- -C-H-E-V-A-U-X, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Course de vitesse opposant des chevaux de course, en principe montés ou guidés par des jockeys.
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- The one correct French spelling is C-O-U-R-S-E- -D-E- -C-H-E-V-A-U-X - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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