cursus
\kyʁ.sys\
The verdict
“cursus” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #11,027. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #11,027
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 11
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Cycle éducatif, échelonnement graduel des matières enseignées et des diplômes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cursus · cursus · French
cursus · rank #11,027 · 9 variants · 11 confusables
- FREQ-MID #11,027
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 11 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cuillère
Nearest frequency peer: cuillère (-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 « cursus »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- courtois
courtois
88,977 corpus weight
- cravate
cravate
88,976 corpus weight
- cuillère
cuillère
88,975 corpus weight
- cursus
cursus
88,974 corpus weight
- Danielle
Danielle
88,973 corpus weight
- descriptions
descriptions
88,971 corpus weight
What this shows « cursus » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cursus |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kyʁ.sys\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #11,027 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « cursus »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around cursus (IPA \kyʁ.sys\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #11,027 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for cursus, with forms such as "ccursus", "crusus", and "currsus". 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 11 confusable-pair relationships, "Cyrus", "curtis", "crus", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is cursus, spelled C-U-R-S-U-S.
Definition
- 1Cycle éducatif, échelonnement graduel des matières enseignées et des diplômes.
- 2Agencement euphonique des fins de phrases, selon des règles prédéfinies, caractéristique notamment de la prose rythmique dans la littérature byzantine et des bulles pontificales du Moyen Âge.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cursus appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sur le trottoir, des vieillards débraillés et mal rasés ramassent les canettes des jeunes cravatés qui partent quant à eux ramasser la mise d'un cursus conclu aux États-Unis ou en Angleterre.
Leprêtre, habituellement peu bavard, évoqua en long et en large son cursus professionnel.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccursus
- crusus
- currsus
- curssu
- curssus
- cursuss
- curuss
- cusrus
- ucrsus
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cursus - 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.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).