couler de source

/\ku.le də suʁs\/ verb

Letters

16 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

couler de source is aFrenchverb. It means: Aller de soi ; être évident. Pronounced \ku.le də suʁs\.

Key facts for couler de source
PropertyValue
Headwordcouler de source
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\ku.le də suʁs\
Letters16
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

couler de source is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for couler de source is 16 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ku.le də suʁs\. 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: "Aller de soi ; être évident.".

No misspelling variants are generated for couler de source in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns.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 couler de source, spelled C-O-U-L-E-R- -D-E- -S-O-U-R-C-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Aller de soi ; être évident.

Synonyms

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "couler de source"?
"couler de source" is spelled C-O-U-L-E-R- -D-E- -S-O-U-R-C-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ku.le də suʁs\.
What does "couler de source" mean?
As a verb, "couler de source" means: Aller de soi ; être évident.
How do you pronounce "couler de source"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "couler de source" is \ku.le də suʁs\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "couler de source" come from?
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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.