court
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#960
in French word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
court is anFrenchadj. It means: De petite longueur ou qui n’a pas la longueur moyenne des objets du même genre. Pronounced \kuʁ\. It ranks #960 in French word frequency. Often confused with cut and coût.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | court |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \kuʁ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #960 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for court is 5 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kuʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #960 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for court, with forms such as "ccourt", "corut", and "courrt". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "cut", "coût", "cure", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is court, spelled C-O-U-R-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1De petite longueur ou qui n’a pas la longueur moyenne des objets du même genre.
- 2Qui est en petite quantité, insuffisant.
- 3Borné (en parlant de l’esprit ou de l’intelligence).
- 4Plus court chemin.
- 5Prompt, facile, expéditif.
- 6Qui est de peu de durée.
- 7Concis, peu développé.
- 8Petit, courtaud.
- 9Se dit d’un adjectif comportant une seule syllabe, ou deux auquel cas il se termine obligatoirement par un -y.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccourt,corut,courrt,courtt,coutr,cuort,ocurt
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for court
Misspelling Variants of "court"
Frequency rank: #960 in French
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Other entries that begin with the letter C in our French index: