couiner
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#67,406
in French word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
couiner is aFrenchverb. It means: Grincer, se plaindre. Pronounced \kwi.ne\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | couiner |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kwi.ne\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #67,406 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for couiner is 7 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kwi.ne\. Corpus data places it at rank #67,406 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for couiner in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 couiner, spelled C-O-U-I-N-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Grincer, se plaindre.
- 2Émettre un couinement, le cri du lapin, du lièvre lorsqu’il est pris en chasse.
- 3Émettre un couinement, un cri aigu, en parlant d’autres animaux.
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Frequency rank: #67,406 in French
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