cope
\kop\
The verdict
“cope” is uncommon French (frequency #52,590 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,590
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Utiliser des pensées et des actes pour résoudre les problèmes auxquels on est confronté·e, et ainsi réduire le stress qu’ils engendrent.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cope · cope · French
cope · rank #52,590 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,590
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH copiant
Nearest frequency peer: copiant (+1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangs de longue queue près de « cope »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- constitutiv…
constitutives
47,414 corpus weight
- contagieuses
contagieuses
47,413 corpus weight
- cope
cope
47,411 corpus weight
- copiant
copiant
47,410 corpus weight
- corbillard
corbillard
47,409 corpus weight
- corticoïdes
corticoïdes
47,408 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cope » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cope |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kop\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #52,590 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cope » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cope is uncommon French at frequency #52,590 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \kop\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for cope in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is cope, spelled C-O-P-E.
Definition
- 1Utiliser des pensées et des actes pour résoudre les problèmes auxquels on est confronté·e, et ainsi réduire le stress qu’ils engendrent.
- 2Contourner, éviter.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cope appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
J'avais besoin de cope sur ce qui c'est passé, posez pas de question, ça a réussis à me changer les idées de faire ça
C'est normal quand tu as un vécu d'essayer de cope avec du vécu, et ça arrive à beaucoup de gens (un des meilleurs exemples, c'est W ou le souvenir d'enfance). Néanmoins, en tant qu'adulte, tu dois être capable de faire la part des choses.
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); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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