faire les courses

/\fɛʁ lɛ kuʁs\/ verb

Letters

17 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

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similar word pairs

faire les courses is aFrenchverb. It means: Acheter ce qui est nécessaire au quotidien (nourriture, etc.). Pronounced \fɛʁ lɛ kuʁs\.

Key facts for faire les courses
PropertyValue
Headwordfaire les courses
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\fɛʁ lɛ kuʁs\
Letters17
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

faire les courses is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for faire les courses is 17 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fɛʁ lɛ 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.).".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for faire les courses in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is faire les courses, spelled F-A-I-R-E- -L-E-S- -C-O-U-R-S-E-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Acheter ce qui est nécessaire au quotidien (nourriture, etc.).

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "faire les courses"?
"faire les courses" is spelled F-A-I-R-E- -L-E-S- -C-O-U-R-S-E-S. The IPA pronunciation is \fɛʁ lɛ kuʁs\.
What does "faire les courses" mean?
As a verb, "faire les courses" means: Acheter ce qui est nécessaire au quotidien (nourriture, etc.).
How do you pronounce "faire les courses"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "faire les courses" is \fɛʁ lɛ kuʁs\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "faire les courses" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.