parcours

/\paʁ.kuʁ\/ noun

Letters

8 characters

Frequency Rank

#1,448

in French word usage

Misspellings

12

tracked variants

Confusables

9

similar word pairs

parcours is aFrenchnoun. It means: Chemin, trajet que fait une personne ou que l’on fait faire à une chose. Pronounced \paʁ.kuʁ\. It ranks #1,448 in French word frequency. Often confused with parcouru and parcourt.

Key facts for parcours
PropertyValue
Headwordparcours
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\paʁ.kuʁ\
Letters8
Frequency rank#1,448
Misspellings tracked12
Confusable pairs9
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of parcours in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for parcours is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \paʁ.kuʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #1,448 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for parcours, with forms such as "aprcours", "pacrours", and "parccours". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 9 confusable-pair relationships, "parcouru", "parcourt", "parleurs", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

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 parcours, spelled P-A-R-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

  1. 1
    Chemin, trajet que fait une personne ou que l’on fait faire à une chose.
  2. 2
    Trajet déterminé que fait une voiture publique, de celui que fait un cheval dans une course.
  3. 3
    Tracé d'un trajet.
  4. 4
    Curriculum vitæ.
  5. 5
    Droit collectif, qui était pratiqué dans certaines régions, et qui était équivalent à une vaine-pâture sur les terrains de communes ou de paroisses adjacentes.
  6. 6
    Ouvrier agricole saisonnier embauché, pour le temps des moissons, à la manipulation des gerbes.
  7. 7
    Déroulement d'une course hippique du point de vue de ses concurrents.

Synonyms

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: aprcours,pacrours,parccours,parcorus,parcourrs,parcourss,parcousr,parcuors,parocurs,parrcours,pparcours,pracours

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for parcours

Misspelling Variants of "parcours"

aprcours8pacrours8parccours9parcorus8parcourrs9parcourss9parcousr8parcuors8
Misspelling Variants of "parcours"

Frequency rank: #1,448 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "parcours"?
"parcours" is spelled P-A-R-C-O-U-R-S. The IPA pronunciation is \paʁ.kuʁ\.
What does "parcours" mean?
As a noun, "parcours" means: Chemin, trajet que fait une personne ou que l’on fait faire à une chose.
What words are commonly confused with "parcours"?
"parcours" is commonly confused with "parcouru", "parcourt", "parleurs". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "parcours"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "parcours" is \paʁ.kuʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "parcours" come from?
"parcours" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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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.