courser
\kuʁ.se\
The verdict
“courser” is uncommon French (frequency #71,395 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,395
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Poursuivre ; courir après quelqu’un ou un animal.
Corpus desk
Index FR-courser · courser · French
courser · rank #71,395 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,395
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH courrais
Nearest frequency peer: courrais (-1 rank slots)
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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « courser »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- costumière
costumière
28,609 corpus weight
- coupante
coupante
28,608 corpus weight
- courrais
courrais
28,607 corpus weight
- courser
courser
28,606 corpus weight
- couvait
couvait
28,605 corpus weight
- couvrit
couvrit
28,604 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « courser » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | courser |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kuʁ.se\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #71,395 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « courser » en français
Rare enough to double-check
courser is uncommon French at frequency #71,395 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \kuʁ.se\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Poursuivre ; courir après quelqu’un ou un animal.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for courser, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is courser, spelled C-O-U-R-S-E-R.
Definition
- 1Poursuivre ; courir après quelqu’un ou un animal.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how courser appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Flamart souffle, tel un taureau coursé. Sous le maillot qui colle, les pectoraux se soulèvent et retombent comme une poitrine de femme asthmatique.
Les parcmètres […] ne sont rien sans policier, sans amende, sans administration fiscale, sans juge, sans fourrière. Même chose pour les autoroutes concédées qui ajoutent à la paisible administration des ponts et chaussées, les guichets de péage avec cachés derrière les inévitables motards pour courser le fraudeur.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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