courue
\ku.ʁy\
The verdict
“courue” is uncommon French (frequency #50,144 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,144
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Temps pendant lequel on laisse écouler l'eau d'un étang vers un ruisseau ou un canal qui sert à flotter du bois.
Corpus desk
Index FR-courue · courue · French
courue · rank #50,144 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,144
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH couplés
Nearest frequency peer: couplés (-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 « courue »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- coula
coula
49,860 corpus weight
- coupera
coupera
49,859 corpus weight
- couplés
couplés
49,858 corpus weight
- courue
courue
49,857 corpus weight
- coutellerie
coutellerie
49,856 corpus weight
- crachat
crachat
49,855 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « courue » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | courue |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ku.ʁy\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #50,144 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « courue » en français
Rare enough to double-check
courue is uncommon French at frequency #50,144 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ku.ʁy\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Temps pendant lequel on laisse écouler l'eau d'un étang vers un ruisseau ou un canal qui sert à flotter du bois.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for courue in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is courue, spelled C-O-U-R-U-E.
Definition
- 1Temps pendant lequel on laisse écouler l'eau d'un étang vers un ruisseau ou un canal qui sert à flotter du bois.
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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