secours
French, noun/sə.kuʁ/
secours is spelled S-E-C-O-U-R-S (7 letters) and appears 45 times per million words in written French, the 1,857th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Secours is a French masculine noun meaning “aid; assistance; help” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Aide, assistance dans le danger, dans le besoin”.
What does secours mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineaid; assistance; help
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Aide, assistance dans le danger, dans le besoin. 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. Organisation charitable dont l’objet est d’aider les personnes en danger, dans le besoin. 4. Ensemble des intervenants en cas d'urgence.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
How do you pronounce secours?
- /sə.kuʁ/
- \sə.kuʁ\
- [le sə.kuʁ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to secours
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is secours in French?
secours appears 45 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).