coursonner
\kuʁ.sɔ.ne\
The verdict
“coursonner” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tailler une branche pour la réduire à un courson.
Corpus desk
Index FR-coursonner · coursonner · French
coursonner · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "C" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | coursonner |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kuʁ.sɔ.ne\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
coursonner is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \kuʁ.sɔ.ne\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Tailler une branche pour la réduire à un courson.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for coursonner, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is coursonner, spelled C-O-U-R-S-O-N-N-E-R.
Definition
- 1Tailler une branche pour la réduire à un courson.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how coursonner appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Coursonner une branche, c’est la raccourcir à la moitié, au tiers, au quart environ de son développement, de manière à la réduire à l’état de courson.
L’élagage sur la jeune flèche sera modéré ; on se bornera à coursonner les ramifications trop longues qui s’y seraient développées, et à laisser les autres.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.