coursive
\kuʁ.siv\
The verdict
“coursive” is uncommon French (frequency #77,387 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,387
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tout passage pratiqué entre des soutes, dans le sens de la longueur d’un navire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-coursive · coursive · French
coursive · rank #77,387 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,387
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH coudé
Nearest frequency peer: coudé (-2 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 « coursive »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- corrélative…
corrélativement
22,618 corpus weight
- coudé
coudé
22,616 corpus weight
- coursive
coursive
22,614 corpus weight
- criants
criants
22,612 corpus weight
- crispations
crispations
22,611 corpus weight
- critiquais
critiquais
22,610 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « coursive » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | coursive |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kuʁ.siv\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #77,387 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « coursive » en français
Rare enough to double-check
coursive is uncommon French at frequency #77,387 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kuʁ.siv\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for coursive, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is coursive, spelled C-O-U-R-S-I-V-E.
Definition
- 1Tout passage pratiqué entre des soutes, dans le sens de la longueur d’un navire.
- 2Passage réservé entre les cabines ou les emménagements divers d’un navire pour permettre la circulation.
- 3En mer, couloir sableux entre les roches.
- 4Dans une prison, désigne un couloir bordé de cellules.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how coursive appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Quant à la petite bonne femme, on la rencontrait dans toutes les coursives, dans les salons, dans les fumoirs, faisant à ses parents les honneurs du navire.
On entendait derrière la porte et devant la fenêtre les garçons de cabine et les grooms parcourir les couloirs et les coursives en agitant leur sonnette pour faire évacuer les visiteurs et des profondeurs du navire montait le bruit sourd des machines comme soudainement haussé d’un cran.
This word in other languages
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).