couche-tôt
\kuʃ.to\
The verdict
“couche-tôt” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as an adjective - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Se dit de quelqu’un qui se couche tôt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | couche-tôt |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kuʃ.to\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “couche-tôt” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for couche-tôt is 10 letters long, classified as an adjective, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kuʃ.to\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Se dit de quelqu’un qui se couche tôt.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for couche-tôt in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is couche-tôt, spelled C-O-U-C-H-E---T-Ô-T.
Definition
- 1Se dit de quelqu’un qui se couche tôt.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “couche-tôt”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is C-O-U-C-H-E---T-Ô-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \kuʃ.to\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.