faire des courses
\fɛʁ de kuʁs\
The verdict
“faire des courses” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a verb - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 17
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Acheter ce qui est nécessaire au quotidien (nourriture, etc.).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | faire des courses |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \fɛʁ de kuʁs\ |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “faire des courses” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for faire des courses is 17 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fɛʁ de kuʁs\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Acheter ce qui est nécessaire au quotidien (nourriture, etc.).".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for faire des courses, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 faire des courses, spelled F-A-I-R-E- -D-E-S- -C-O-U-R-S-E-S.
Definition
- 1Acheter ce qui est nécessaire au quotidien (nourriture, etc.).
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.
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The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is F-A-I-R-E- -D-E-S- -C-O-U-R-S-E-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \fɛʁ de kuʁs\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.