coursera
\kuʁ.sə.ʁa\
The verdict
“coursera” is uncommon French (frequency #88,496 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,496
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du futur du verbe courser.
Corpus desk
Index FR-coursera · coursera · French
coursera · rank #88,496 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,496
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH crayeux
Nearest frequency peer: crayeux (+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 « coursera »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- corvus
corvus
11,509 corpus weight
- coréalisé
coréalisé
11,508 corpus weight
- coterie
coterie
11,507 corpus weight
- coursera
coursera
11,505 corpus weight
- crayeux
crayeux
11,504 corpus weight
- croisiérist…
croisiéristes
11,502 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « coursera » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | coursera |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kuʁ.sə.ʁa\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #88,496 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « coursera » en français
Rare enough to double-check
coursera is uncommon French at frequency #88,496 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \kuʁ.sə.ʁa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du futur du verbe courser.".
coursera doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is coursera, spelled C-O-U-R-S-E-R-A.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du futur du verbe courser.
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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