courses

\kuʁs\

/\kuʁs\/ noun

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The verdict

“courses” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #2,568. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#2,568
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords
9
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de course.

Corpus desk

Index FR-courses · courses · French

courses · rank #2,568 · 9 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #2,568
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 9 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH devez

Nearest frequency peer: devez (+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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « courses »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « courses » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

courses vs cures
71% similar
courses vs courte
71% similar
courses vs courts
71% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for courses
PropertyValue
Headwordcourses
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\kuʁs\
Letters7
Frequency rank#2,568
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « courses »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).coursesse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « devez » (#2,569), « convaincre » (#2,566), « diffusion » (#2,570). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « courses » est au #2,568. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 9 spelling variants around courses (IPA \kuʁs\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #2,568 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de course.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for courses, with forms such as "ccourses", "coruses", and "couress". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "cures", "courte", "courts", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is courses, spelled C-O-U-R-S-E-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Pluriel de course.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how courses appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. L’amour du lucre était pour beaucoup dans les courses à travers les bois au temps de la domination française, mais le besoin d’aventures était le mobile principal qui poussait tant de jeunes gens dans les solitudes les plus reculées, où d’ordinaire ils finissaient par périr ou se sauvagiser.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ccourses
  • coruses
  • couress
  • courrses
  • coursess
  • coursses
  • cousres
  • cuorses
  • ocurses

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of courses - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

ccourses1coruses2couress2courrses1coursess1coursses1cousres2cuorses2
Edit distance from "courses"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "courses"?
"courses" is spelled C-O-U-R-S-E-S. The IPA pronunciation is \kuʁs\.
What does "courses" mean?
As a noun, "courses" means: Pluriel de course.
What words are commonly confused with "courses"?
"courses" is commonly confused with "cures", "courte", "courts". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "courses"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "courses" is \kuʁs\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "courses" come from?
"courses" 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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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "courses", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).

batterie9 variantsattitude9 variantsAntoine9 variantsjoseph9 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list