parcours
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | parcours |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \paʁ.kuʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #1,448 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
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
- 1Chemin, trajet que fait une personne ou que l’on fait faire à une chose.
- 2Trajet déterminé que fait une voiture publique, de celui que fait un cheval dans une course.
- 3Tracé d'un trajet.
- 4Curriculum vitæ.
- 5Droit collectif, qui était pratiqué dans certaines régions, et qui était équivalent à une vaine-pâture sur les terrains de communes ou de paroisses adjacentes.
- 6Ouvrier agricole saisonnier embauché, pour le temps des moissons, à la manipulation des gerbes.
- 7Déroulement d'une course hippique du point de vue de ses concurrents.
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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"
Frequency rank: #1,448 in French
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