discourir
\dis.ku.ʁiʁ\
The verdict
“discourir” is uncommon French (frequency #81,065 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,065
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Parler sur une matière avec quelque étendue.
Corpus desk
Index FR-discourir · discourir · French
discourir · rank #81,065 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,065
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH discordes
Nearest frequency peer: discordes (-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 « discourir »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- dioxines
dioxines
18,939 corpus weight
- dirions
dirions
18,938 corpus weight
- discordes
discordes
18,937 corpus weight
- discourir
discourir
18,936 corpus weight
- diseuse
diseuse
18,935 corpus weight
- disloquée
disloquée
18,934 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « discourir » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | discourir |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \dis.ku.ʁiʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #81,065 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « discourir » en français
Rare enough to double-check
discourir is uncommon French at frequency #81,065 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \dis.ku.ʁiʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for discourir in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists 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 discourir, spelled D-I-S-C-O-U-R-I-R.
Definition
- 1Parler sur une matière avec quelque étendue.
- 2Parler longuement et inutilement.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how discourir appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Lui, discourt, explique une affaire.
Bourgons et Renaud revenaient à Bordeaux en discourant, chemin faisant, sur les dogmes de notre religion, et sur ses bienfaits civilisateurs.
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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