courtise
\kuʁ.tiz\
The verdict
“courtise” is uncommon French (frequency #57,188 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,188
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action par laquelle on courtise.
Corpus desk
Index FR-courtise · courtise · French
courtise · rank #57,188 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,188
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH couacs
Nearest frequency peer: couacs (-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 « courtise »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- corporatifs
corporatifs
42,816 corpus weight
- costards
costards
42,815 corpus weight
- couacs
couacs
42,814 corpus weight
- courtise
courtise
42,813 corpus weight
- coûtaient
coûtaient
42,812 corpus weight
- crapuleux
crapuleux
42,811 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « courtise » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | courtise |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kuʁ.tiz\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #57,188 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « courtise » en français
Rare enough to double-check
courtise is uncommon French at frequency #57,188 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kuʁ.tiz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Action par laquelle on courtise.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for courtise, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is courtise, spelled C-O-U-R-T-I-S-E.
Definition
- 1Action par laquelle on courtise.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how courtise appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La courtise d'Etain.
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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