coucher du soleil
\ku.ʃe dy sɔ.lɛj\
The verdict
“coucher du soleil” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 17
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Variante de coucher de soleil.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | coucher du soleil |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ku.ʃe dy sɔ.lɛj\ |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “coucher du soleil” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
coucher du soleil is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ku.ʃe dy sɔ.lɛj\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Variante de coucher de soleil.".
No misspelling variants are generated for coucher du soleil in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is coucher du soleil, spelled C-O-U-C-H-E-R- -D-U- -S-O-L-E-I-L.
Definition
- 1Variante de coucher de soleil.
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 “coucher du soleil”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is C-O-U-C-H-E-R- -D-U- -S-O-L-E-I-L - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ku.ʃe dy sɔ.lɛj\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.