coucher
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,271
in French word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
coucher is aFrenchverb. It means: Étendre de son long sur la terre, sur un lit, etc., mettre quelque chose en position horizontale. Pronounced \ku.ʃe\. It ranks #2,271 in French word frequency. Often confused with couper and couler.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | coucher |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ku.ʃe\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #2,271 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for coucher is 7 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ku.ʃe\. Corpus data places it at rank #2,271 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 15 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for coucher, with forms such as "ccoucher", "cocuher", and "couccher". 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, "couper", "couler", "coûter", 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 coucher, spelled C-O-U-C-H-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Étendre de son long sur la terre, sur un lit, etc., mettre quelque chose en position horizontale.
- 2S’allonger sur le sol. Se mettre en position horizontale.
- 3Mettre quelqu’un au lit, le déshabiller, l’aider à se mettre au lit.
- 4Se mettre au lit, s’endormir.
- 5Faire l’amour ; passer une nuit d’amour.
- 6Tuer ; blesser.
- 7Inscrire, écrire, enregistrer sur un support.
- 8Descendre sous l’horizon au sujet du soleil et des astres.
- 9Courber, incliner ce qui est naturellement droit. Pencher.
- 10Être étendu pour prendre son repos.
- 11Loger la nuit en quelque endroit en y prenant du repos.
- 12Dresser un aliment sur une plaque.
- 13Appliquer un enduit, une couche de produit, sur un support.
- 14Passer sous l’horizon de l’ouest, en parlant des astres.
- 15Se retirer de la partie.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccoucher,cocuher,couccher,coucehr,coucherr,couchher,couchre,couhcer,cuocher,ocucher
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for coucher
Misspelling Variants of "coucher"
Frequency rank: #2,271 in French
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