copie
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,245
in French word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
copie is aFrenchnoun. It means: Action de copier. Pronounced \kɔ.pi\. It ranks #3,245 in French word frequency. Often confused with CPE and CPI.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | copie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ.pi\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #3,245 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for copie is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɔ.pi\. Corpus data places it at rank #3,245 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 10 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for copie, with forms such as "ccopie", "coipe", and "copei". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "CPE", "CPI", "côte", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 copie, spelled C-O-P-I-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Action de copier.
- 2Double fait d’après un original.
- 3Reproduction d’un ouvrage d’art.
- 4Simple imitation, emprunt, plagiat.
- 5Imitateur, personne qui reproduit ou imite les manières d’une autre.
- 6Tout écrit destiné à être reproduit.
- 7Tout écrit destiné à être reproduit.
- 8Devoir que l’écolier remet au professeur et qui, en général, est la transcription au net d’une première élaboration.
- 9Feuille de papier fabriquée pour un tel usage (ce sens est utilisé essentiellement dans les locutions copie simple et copie double).
- 10Moule d'épaisseur différente de grandes tartes aux fruits ou au riz, appelées roues de charrette ou encore gâteaux de Verviers, divisibles et vendues en quart ou en huitième. Il existe aussi des demi-copies, des doubles-copies et même des triples-copies pour certains gâteaux épais.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccopie,coipe,copei,coppie,cpoie,ocpie
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for copie
Misspelling Variants of "copie"
Frequency rank: #3,245 in French
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