Koursk
\kuʁsk\
The verdict
“Koursk” is uncommon French (frequency #84,947 among 737 “K” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,947
- frequency rank, French
- 737
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ville de Russie et la capitale administrative de l'oblast de Koursk, près de la frontière ukrainienne.
Corpus desk
Index FR-koursk · Koursk · French
Koursk · rank #84,947 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,947
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 737
- PHOTO-FINISH Kwiatkowski
Nearest frequency peer: Kwiatkowski (+2 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 « Koursk »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Kaysersberg
Kaysersberg
15,060 corpus weight
- kirghizes
kirghizes
15,057 corpus weight
- Koursk
Koursk
15,054 corpus weight
- Kwiatkowski
Kwiatkowski
15,052 corpus weight
- kétamine
kétamine
15,051 corpus weight
- laire
laire
15,046 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Koursk » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Koursk |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \kuʁsk\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #84,947 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Koursk » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Koursk is uncommon French at frequency #84,947 among 737 “K” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \kuʁsk\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Ville de Russie et la capitale administrative de l'oblast de Koursk, près de la frontière ukrainienne.".
No misspelling variants are generated for Koursk in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is Koursk, spelled K-O-U-R-S-K.
Definition
- 1Ville de Russie et la capitale administrative de l'oblast de Koursk, près de la frontière ukrainienne.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Koursk appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Serge Ivanovitch et Katavassov étaient à peine arrivés à la gare du chemin de fer de Koursk, ce jour-là particulièrement animée, et descendus de voiture, cherchant du regard le domestique chargé de leurs bagages, qu’aussitôt parurent quatre voitures de volontaires.
La survenue de l’ambassadeur, lui-même aristocrate de la plus belle eau et stupéfiante gueule cassée de la bataille du saillant de Koursk, œil bleu acier dans un visage écartelé, aussi grand et mince que la mère de Wendi, mit fin à la rencontre.
This word in other languages
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).