laisser libre cours
\lɛ.se libʁ kuʁ\
The verdict
“laisser libre cours” 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
- 19
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Ne pas contenir, ni retenir ; laisser aller sans retenue.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | laisser libre cours |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \lɛ.se libʁ kuʁ\ |
| Letters | 19 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “laisser libre cours” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for laisser libre cours is 19 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \lɛ.se libʁ kuʁ\. 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: "Ne pas contenir, ni retenir ; laisser aller sans retenue.".
No misspelling variants are generated for laisser libre cours 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 libre cours, spelled L-A-I-S-S-E-R- -L-I-B-R-E- -C-O-U-R-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Ne pas contenir, ni retenir ; laisser aller sans retenue.
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 one correct French spelling is L-A-I-S-S-E-R- -L-I-B-R-E- -C-O-U-R-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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