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How to spell course

hear itcourse/koʊrs/nounLong vowels

What it means: The path or direction of something.

In a sentence: The duck followed the course of the river.

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as corse or cours.

Sounds like, but is not: coarse. Same sound, different spelling and meaning.

Same family: of course, coursework, coursebook, courseful, recourse. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Course comes from Old French “cours,” from Latin “cursus,” meaning a running or a path. This is why many uses of “course” still relate to a path or direction, whether it’s a ship’s course, a course of study, or the course of history.

Patterns it uses: Drop the e before a suffix?

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