cops
French, noun/kɔp/
cops is spelled C-O-P-S (4 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written French, the 39,210th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Cops is a French masculine noun meaning “plural of cop” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Enroulement de fils sur un tube cylindrique ou cylindro-conique”.
What does cops mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineplural of cop
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Enroulement de fils sur un tube cylindrique ou cylindro-conique. 2. Tube autour duquel est effectué cet enroulement.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
How do you pronounce cops?
- /kɔp/
- \kɔps\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is cops in French?
cops appears about once in every 1 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).