copier
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#8,368
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
copier is aFrenchverb. It means: Reproduire par écrit. Pronounced \kɔ.pje\. It ranks #8,368 in French word frequency. Often confused with crier and cover.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | copier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kɔ.pje\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #8,368 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for copier is 6 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɔ.pje\. Corpus data places it at rank #8,368 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for copier, with forms such as "ccopier", "coiper", and "copeir". 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, "crier", "cover", "coter", 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 copier, spelled C-O-P-I-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Reproduire par écrit.
- 2Reproduire par une imitation exacte.
- 3Se dit d’un peintre qui se répète, qui n’est pas varié dans les attitudes, dans son ton ; ou d’un auteur qui n’a qu’un petit nombre d’idées, qui ne sait point varier les formes qu’il emploie.
- 4Tricher en classe ou à un examen en regardant la copie de son voisin de classe.
- 5Recevoir par CB.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccopier,coiper,copeir,copierr,copire,coppier,cpoier,ocpier
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for copier
Misspelling Variants of "copier"
Frequency rank: #8,368 in French
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Nearby French words
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