casse-cou
Letters
9 characters
Language
French
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
casse-cou is aFrenchnoun. It means: Endroit où l’on risque de tomber, si l’on n’y prend garde. Pronounced \kas.ku\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | casse-cou |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kas.ku\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for casse-cou is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kas.ku\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for casse-cou in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French 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 French form is casse-cou, spelled C-A-S-S-E---C-O-U, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Endroit où l’on risque de tomber, si l’on n’y prend garde.
- 2Risque, opération périlleuse.
- 3En termes du jeu de colin-maillard, s’emploie comme interjection pour avertir la personne qui a les yeux bandés qu’elle s’approche d’un endroit où elle pourrait se blesser.
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