CouriervscourrezConfusable pair

Quick tell: Courier is a name, courrez is a verb, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“Courier” is a name and “courrez” is a verb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#40,201
“Courier” frequency rank
#43,866
“courrez” frequency rank
84067
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature Courier courrez
Definition Nom d’une police à chasse fixe (monospace) rappelant une machine à écrire, et dont les empattements sont conçus pour éviter toute confusion entre deux caractères. Deuxième personne du pluriel du futur de courir.

Letter map: Courier vs courrez

Shared letters muted; letters that set Courier and courrez apart highlighted. Shared run: 5. Courier (CVVCVVC) and courrez (CVVCCVC) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.

7 ch
Courier
7 ch
courrez

Role in the sentence - Courier and courrez

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: Courier is aname and courrezaverb. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 84067, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

Courier is recorded at frequency rank #40,201, classified as aname. courrez is at rank #43,866, tagged as averb, pronounced \kuʁ.ʁe\.

Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.

With a confusion score of 84067, this pair ranks #13,640 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of Courier vs courrez

Shared letters: ceoru. Private to "Courier": i. Private to "courrez": z.

"Courier" · 7 letters · shape CVVCVVC  ·  "courrez" · 7 letters · shape CVVCCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • Courier ← ccourier · coruier · couirer · coureir · courierr · courire · cuorier · ocurier
  • courrez ← ccourrez · corurez · courerz · courrezz · courrze · cuorrez · ocurrez

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "Courier" for "courrez" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "Courier" is a name and "courrez" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary French text, does "Courier" or "courrez" show up more?
"Courier" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #40,201 in our French list, against #43,866 for "courrez". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

You've compared "Courier" and "courrez". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "Courier" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "courrez" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #13,640 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "Courier" and "courrez" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "courges vs courrez". Nearby pair
  • Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes

Confusion rank #13,640 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list