au premier coup d’œil
The verdict
“au premier coup d’œil” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as an adverb - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 21
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Au premier aspect ; à la première inspection ; au premier examen.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | au premier coup d’œil |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| Letters | 21 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “au premier coup d’œil” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for au premier coup d’œil is 21 letters long, classified as an adverb. 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: "Au premier aspect ; à la première inspection ; au premier examen.".
Zero misspellings are on record for au premier coup d’œil in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is au premier coup d’œil, spelled A-U- -P-R-E-M-I-E-R- -C-O-U-P- -D-’-Œ-I-L.
Definition
- 1Au premier aspect ; à la première inspection ; au premier examen.
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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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Using “au premier coup d’œil”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is A-U- -P-R-E-M-I-E-R- -C-O-U-P- -D-’-Œ-I-L - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.