courts

\kuʁ\

/\kuʁ\/ adj

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The verdict

“courts” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #4,931. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#4,931
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords
9
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de court.

Corpus desk

Index FR-courts · courts · French

courts · rank #4,931 · 9 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #4,931
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 9 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH copains

Nearest frequency peer: copains (-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 « courts »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « courts » 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).

courts vs coût
50% similar
courts vs cous
67% similar
courts vs coûte
50% similar

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

Key facts for courts
PropertyValue
Headwordcourts
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\kuʁ\
Letters6
Frequency rank#4,931
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « courts »

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

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

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « copains » (#4,930), « dignité » (#4,932), « diminution » (#4,933). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « courts » est au #4,931. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 9 spelling variants around courts (IPA \kuʁ\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #4,931 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Masculin pluriel de court.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for courts, with forms such as "ccourts", "coruts", and "courrts". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "coût", "cous", "coûte", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is courts, spelled C-O-U-R-T-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Masculin pluriel de court.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. La production hagiographique de la période moderne offre un florilège de textes longs (plusieurs centaines de pages) ou courts (de deux à quelques dizaines de folios), en prose ou en vers, portant sur des saints espagnols ou italiens.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ccourts
  • coruts
  • courrts
  • courst
  • courtss
  • courtts
  • coutrs
  • cuorts
  • ocurts

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of courts - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

ccourts1coruts2courrts1courst2courtss1courtts1coutrs2cuorts2
Edit distance from "courts"

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 "courts"?
"courts" is spelled C-O-U-R-T-S. The IPA pronunciation is \kuʁ\.
What does "courts" mean?
As an adjective, "courts" means: Masculin pluriel de court.
What words are commonly confused with "courts"?
"courts" is commonly confused with "coût", "cous", "coûte". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "courts"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "courts" is \kuʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "courts" come from?
"courts" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

cirque#4,922chérie#4,921French#4,943canard#4,915

Similar misspelling depth

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

isabelle9 variantslibéré9 variantsaccordé9 variantspanneaux9 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list