coupon
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Detailed reference entry for the English word "coupon", 6-letters, with pronunciation in International Phonetic Alphabet notation, etymology traced through Germanic and Romance roots where applicable, common misspelling variants catalogued from Hunspell error dictionaries, and usage frequency ranked against the top 100,000 English words in the Wordfreq corpus. PlainSpell covers English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German spelling with confusable-pair detection that highlights visually and phonetically similar words. This entry for "coupon" includes synonyms, antonyms, homophones, and cross-language translation pointers sourced from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org extract. Whether you are verifying the correct spelling of "coupon" for academic writing, checking homophone confusion, or exploring etymological origins, this page provides a citation-backed, free reference that requires no sign-up.
coupon is aEnglishnoun. It means: A section of a ticket, showing the holder to be entitled to some specified accommodation or service, as to a passage over a designated line of travel, a particular seat in a theater, a discount, etc. Pronounced /ˈkuːˌpɒn/. It ranks #8,773 in English word frequency. Often confused with coups and cousin.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | coupon |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈkuːˌpɒn/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #8,773 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 17 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for coupon is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈkuːˌpɒn/. Corpus data places it at rank #8,773 in overall English word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for coupon, with forms such as "ccoupon", "copuon", and "couopn". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 17 confusable-pair relationships, "coups", "cousin", "coup", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: From French coupon, from couper (“to cut”). Root origin matters for spelling because borrowed morphemes (Greek, Latin, Old French, Old English) carry their source-language orthographic conventions into modern English, which is why historical etymology is often the cleanest predictor of whether a cluster like "-ough", "-eau", or "-tion" will appear. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct English form is coupon, spelled C-O-U-P-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1A section of a ticket, showing the holder to be entitled to some specified accommodation or service, as to a passage over a designated line of travel, a particular seat in a theater, a discount, etc.
- 2A voucher issued by a manufacturer or retailer which offers a discount on a particular product.
- 3A certificate of interest due, printed at the bottom of transferable bonds (state, railroad, etc.), given for a term of years, designed to be cut off and presented for payment when the interest is due; an interest warrant.
- 4Any interest payment made or due on a bond, debenture or similar (no longer by a physical coupon).
- 5The letter sent to parliamentary candidates at the 1918 general election, endorsing them as official representatives of the coalition government.
- 6A person's face.
- 7A small sample of a bulk material, prepared so that test failure will be representative.
Etymology
From French coupon, from couper (“to cut”).
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccoupon,copuon,couopn,coupno,couponn,couppon,cuopon,ocupon
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Relative frequency of common misspelling types for coupon
Misspelling Variants of "coupon"
Frequency rank: #8,773 in English
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