pouvoir toujours courir

/\pu.vwaʁ tu.ʒuʁ ku.ʁiʁ\/ verb

The verdict

“pouvoir toujours 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
23
letters

Dominant Wiktionary sense: Expression que l’on emploie pour signifier que, quoi qu'on fasse, on n’atteindra jamais le résultat.

Key facts for pouvoir toujours courir
PropertyValue
Headwordpouvoir toujours courir
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\pu.vwaʁ tu.ʒuʁ ku.ʁiʁ\
Letters23
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “pouvoir toujours courir” sits in French frequency

pouvoir toujours courir falls outside the top-100,000 ranked French words — the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for pouvoir toujours courir is 23 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pu.vwaʁ tu.ʒuʁ ku.ʁiʁ\. 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: "Expression que l’on emploie pour signifier que, quoi qu'on fasse, on n’atteindra jamais le résultat.".

No misspelling variants are generated for pouvoir toujours 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 pouvoir toujours courir, spelled P-O-U-V-O-I-R- -T-O-U-J-O-U-R-S- -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

  1. 1
    Expression que l’on emploie pour signifier que, quoi qu'on fasse, on n’atteindra jamais le résultat.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "pouvoir toujours courir"?
"pouvoir toujours courir" is spelled P-O-U-V-O-I-R- -T-O-U-J-O-U-R-S- -C-O-U-R-I-R. The IPA pronunciation is \pu.vwaʁ tu.ʒuʁ ku.ʁiʁ\.
What does "pouvoir toujours courir" mean?
As a verb, "pouvoir toujours courir" means: Expression que l’on emploie pour signifier que, quoi qu'on fasse, on n’atteindra jamais le résultat.
How do you pronounce "pouvoir toujours courir"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "pouvoir toujours courir" is \pu.vwaʁ tu.ʒuʁ ku.ʁiʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Using “pouvoir toujours courir”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct French spelling is P-O-U-V-O-I-R- -T-O-U-J-O-U-R-S- -C-O-U-R-I-R — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Say it as \pu.vwaʁ tu.ʒuʁ ku.ʁiʁ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.