curse
\kɜːs\
The verdict
“curse” is uncommon French (frequency #77,400 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,400
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Malédiction.
Corpus desk
Index FR-curse · curse · French
curse · rank #77,400 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,400
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Currie
Nearest frequency peer: Currie (-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 « curse »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cuesta
cuesta
22,604 corpus weight
- Currie
Currie
22,602 corpus weight
- curse
curse
22,601 corpus weight
- Cyrielle
Cyrielle
22,600 corpus weight
- cœliaque
cœliaque
22,599 corpus weight
- dahir
dahir
22,597 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « curse » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | curse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɜːs\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #77,400 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « curse » en français
Rare enough to double-check
curse is uncommon French at frequency #77,400 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɜːs\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for curse in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is curse, spelled C-U-R-S-E.
Definition
- 1Malédiction.
- 2Gros mot, juron.
- 3Imprécation.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how curse appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
I have placed a curse on his head forever.
We'll have no curses here at school.
Synonyms
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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