coffre-fort
\kɔ.fʁə.fɔʁ\
The verdict
“coffre-fort” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Coffre de métal, généralement en forme d’armoire, destiné à serrer de l’argent et les objets précieux, et construit de telle façon qu’il soit à l’abri du feu et des voleurs.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | coffre-fort |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ.fʁə.fɔʁ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “coffre-fort” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for coffre-fort is 11 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɔ.fʁə.fɔʁ\. 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: "Coffre de métal, généralement en forme d’armoire, destiné à serrer de l’argent et les objets précieux, et construit de telle façon qu’il soit à l’abri du feu et des voleurs.".
coffre-fort has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is coffre-fort, spelled C-O-F-F-R-E---F-O-R-T.
Definition
- 1Coffre de métal, généralement en forme d’armoire, destiné à serrer de l’argent et les objets précieux, et construit de telle façon qu’il soit à l’abri du feu et des voleurs.
This word in other languages
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 “coffre-fort”
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- The one correct French spelling is C-O-F-F-R-E---F-O-R-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \kɔ.fʁə.fɔʁ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.