cours
\kuʁ\
The verdict
“cours” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #99,603 among 2,140 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #99,603
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 2,140
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - curso
Corpus desk
Index PT-cours · cours · Portuguese
cours · rank #99,603 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #99,603
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH cotão
Nearest frequency peer: cotão (-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.
Ranks da cauda longa perto de “cours”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- choir
choir
443 corpus weight
- cotão
cotão
399 corpus weight
- cours
cours
398 corpus weight
- crendice
crendice
393 corpus weight
- crust
crust
390 corpus weight
- dentuço
dentuço
358 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “cours” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cours |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kuʁ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #99,603 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “cours” em português
Rare enough to double-check
cours is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #99,603 among 2,140 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kuʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "curso".
cours doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, 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 its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is cours, spelled C-O-U-R-S.
Definition
- 1curso
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 Portuguese corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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