discourse
\ˈdɪs.ˌkɔːs\
The verdict
“discourse” is uncommon French (frequency #97,859 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,859
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Discours.
Corpus desk
Index FR-discourse · discourse · French
discourse · rank #97,859 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,859
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH disa
Nearest frequency peer: disa (-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 « discourse »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- diphtongues
diphtongues
2,144 corpus weight
- disa
disa
2,143 corpus weight
- discourse
discourse
2,142 corpus weight
- disettes
disettes
2,141 corpus weight
- diseur
diseur
2,140 corpus weight
- dispersa
dispersa
2,139 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « discourse » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | discourse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈdɪs.ˌkɔːs\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #97,859 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « discourse » en français
Rare enough to double-check
discourse is uncommon French at frequency #97,859 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈdɪs.ˌkɔːs\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Discours.".
discourse has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is discourse, spelled D-I-S-C-O-U-R-S-E.
Definition
- 1Discours.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how discourse appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
I listened to this discourse with the extremest agony.
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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