discourtoisie
\dis.kuʁ.twa.zi\
The verdict
“discourtoisie” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Manque de courtoisie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-discourtoisie · discourtoisie · French
discourtoisie · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-7 7 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "D" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | discourtoisie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dis.kuʁ.twa.zi\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « discourtoisie » en français
Rare enough to double-check
discourtoisie is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \dis.kuʁ.twa.zi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Manque de courtoisie.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for discourtoisie, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is discourtoisie, spelled D-I-S-C-O-U-R-T-O-I-S-I-E.
Definition
- 1Manque de courtoisie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how discourtoisie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Alors la discourtoisie du contrôleur s’exhala en propos blasphématoires, où le nom de Notre-Seigneur se trouvait fâcheusement mêlé
Quand un collectionneur désire vous montrer sa dernière acquisition, il y aurait de la discourtoisie et même un peu d’irrévérence à ne pas marquer d’empressement.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.