courues
\ku.ʁy\
The verdict
“courues” is uncommon French (frequency #76,465 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,465
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de courue.
Corpus desk
Index FR-courues · courues · French
courues · rank #76,465 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,465
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Courlande
Nearest frequency peer: Courlande (-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 « courues »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- corticale
corticale
23,539 corpus weight
- couchaient
couchaient
23,538 corpus weight
- Courlande
Courlande
23,537 corpus weight
- courues
courues
23,536 corpus weight
- couvreurs
couvreurs
23,535 corpus weight
- craindrait
craindrait
23,533 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « courues » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | courues |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ku.ʁy\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #76,465 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « courues » en français
Rare enough to double-check
courues is uncommon French at frequency #76,465 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ku.ʁy\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de courue.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for courues in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is courues, spelled C-O-U-R-U-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de courue.
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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