copeau
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#62,168
in French word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
copeau is aFrenchnoun. It means: Éclat, morceau ou rognure qu’on enlève du bois avec un instrument tranchant. Pronounced \kɔ.po\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | copeau |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ.po\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #62,168 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for copeau is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɔ.po\. Corpus data places it at rank #62,168 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for copeau 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 copeau, spelled C-O-P-E-A-U, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Éclat, morceau ou rognure qu’on enlève du bois avec un instrument tranchant.
- 2Tortillon de métal.
- 3Lamelles de bois très fines dont on fait des peignes ou des ornements.
- 4Tranches fines de roche schisteuse dont on fait les ardoises.
- 5Frites.
- 6Petits morceaux, bribes.
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Frequency rank: #62,168 in French
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