panier de courses
\pa.nje də kuʁs\
The verdict
“panier de courses” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 17
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Sac ou panier servant à transporter les produits achetés au marché ou au supermarché.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | panier de courses |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pa.nje də kuʁs\ |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “panier de courses” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for panier de courses is 17 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pa.nje də 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: "Sac ou panier servant à transporter les produits achetés au marché ou au supermarché.".
No misspelling variants are generated for panier de courses 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 panier de courses, spelled P-A-N-I-E-R- -D-E- -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
- 1Sac ou panier servant à transporter les produits achetés au marché ou au supermarché.
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 P-A-N-I-E-R- -D-E- -C-O-U-R-S-E-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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