faire des courses
\fɛʁ de kuʁs\
The verdict
“faire des courses” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 17
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Acheter ce qui est nécessaire au quotidien (nourriture, etc.).
Corpus desk
Index FR-faire-des-courses · faire des courses · French
faire des courses · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 17 letters
- VOW-7 7 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "F" 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 | 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) |
Longue queue: rang de « faire des courses » en français
Rare enough to double-check
faire des courses is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \fɛʁ de kuʁs\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "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.).
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how faire des courses appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Par contre, il peut amener sa famille en ville pour visiter un zoo, faire des courses dans un magasin, un supermarché, un drugstore, où il se ravitaille dès lors comme tout client du monde.
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.