coup de boule
\ku də bul\
The verdict
“coup de boule” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Coup violent porté avec le front contre le visage d’une personne.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | coup de boule |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ku də bul\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “coup de boule” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for coup de boule is 13 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ku də bul\. 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: "Coup violent porté avec le front contre le visage d’une personne.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for coup de boule, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is coup de boule, spelled C-O-U-P- -D-E- -B-O-U-L-E.
Definition
- 1Coup violent porté avec le front contre le visage d’une personne.
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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 “coup de boule”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is C-O-U-P- -D-E- -B-O-U-L-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ku də bul\ (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.