secours

\sə.kuʁ\

/\sə.kuʁ\/ noun

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The verdict

“secours” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #1,889. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#1,889
frequency rank, French
6,032
“S” headwords
10
tracked misspellings
13
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Aide, assistance dans le danger, dans le besoin.

Corpus desk

Index FR-secours · secours · French

secours · rank #1,889 · 10 variants · 13 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #1,889
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 13 pairs
  • VAR-MID 10 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,032
  • PHOTO-FINISH publication

Nearest frequency peer: publication (-1 rank slots)

Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « secours »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « secours » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

secours vs séjour
57% similar
secours vs secure
71% similar
secours vs séjours
71% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for secours
PropertyValue
Headwordsecours
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\sə.kuʁ\
Letters7
Frequency rank#1,889
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs13
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « secours »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.secoursse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « publication » (#1,888), « sommet » (#1,890), « proposition » (#1,887). Parmi 6,032 lemmes en « S », « secours » est au #1,889. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 10 spelling variants around secours (IPA \sə.kuʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #1,889 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for secours, with forms such as "escours", "sceours", and "seccours". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 13 confusable-pair relationships, "séjour", "secure", "séjours", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is secours, spelled S-E-C-O-U-R-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Aide, assistance dans le danger, dans le besoin.
  2. 2
    Aide des troupes qu’on envoie ou qui viennent secourir, seconder ceux qui sont trop faibles pour résister avec avantage à l’ennemi.
  3. 3
    Organisation charitable dont l’objet est d’aider les personnes en danger, dans le besoin.
  4. 4
    Ensemble des intervenants en cas d'urgence.
  5. 5
    Succursale d'une paroisse.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how secours appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Il vit, non loin du grand chemin, une femme éplorée qui appelait le Ciel et la Terre à son secours, et un homme furieux qui la suivait […] Cet homme l’accablait de coups et de reproches.
  2. Toute la journée, au fur et à mesure que les toues amenaient les inondés à la Croix-Verte, les ecclésiastiques de la ville et les sœurs de charité leur distribuaient, au nom de l'autorité, tous les secours possibles en pain, viande et vin.

This word in other languages

rescue(English)socorro(Español)Notdienst(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • escours
  • sceours
  • seccours
  • secorus
  • secourrs
  • secourss
  • secousr
  • secuors
  • seocurs
  • ssecours

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of secours - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

escours2sceours2seccours1secorus2secourrs1secourss1secousr2secuors2
Edit distance from "secours"

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "secours"?
"secours" is spelled S-E-C-O-U-R-S. The IPA pronunciation is \sə.kuʁ\.
What does "secours" mean?
As a noun, "secours" means: Aide, assistance dans le danger, dans le besoin.
What words are commonly confused with "secours"?
"secours" is commonly confused with "séjour", "secure", "séjours". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "secours"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "secours" is \sə.kuʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "secours" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "secours", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

moments#1,876minimum#1,875espèces#1,864conduit#1,859

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).

paroles10 variantspensais10 variantspouvons10 variantstroupes10 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list