Coq au Vin
[kɔkoˈvɛ̃ː]
The verdict
“Coq au Vin” is outside the top-ranked German vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — mit Wein zubereitetes Hähnchen (eigentlich Hahn), ein traditionelles französisches Gericht
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Coq au Vin |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kɔkoˈvɛ̃ː] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Coq au Vin” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Coq au Vin is 10 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [kɔkoˈvɛ̃ː]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "mit Wein zubereitetes Hähnchen (eigentlich Hahn), ein traditionelles französisches Gericht".
No misspelling variants are generated for Coq au Vin in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, 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 spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is Coq au Vin, spelled C-O-Q- -A-U- -V-I-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1mit Wein zubereitetes Hähnchen (eigentlich Hahn), ein traditionelles französisches Gericht
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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- The one correct German spelling is C-O-Q- -A-U- -V-I-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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