laisser courir
\lɛ.se ku.ʁiʁ\
The verdict
“laisser courir” 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
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Continuer librement, sans apporter de modifications.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | laisser courir |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \lɛ.se ku.ʁiʁ\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “laisser courir” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for laisser courir is 14 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \lɛ.se ku.ʁiʁ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for laisser courir in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. 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 laisser courir, spelled L-A-I-S-S-E-R- -C-O-U-R-I-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Continuer librement, sans apporter de modifications.
- 2Supprimer ce qui entrave.
- 3Laisser les autres faire ou dire des choses dérangeantes, sans intervenir.
- 4Laisser faire. Ne pas entraver. Accorder du crédit.
Synonyms
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 L-A-I-S-S-E-R- -C-O-U-R-I-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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