coup de boule
\ku də bul\
The verdict
“coup de boule” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Coup violent porté avec le front contre le visage d’une personne.
Corpus desk
Index FR-coup-de-boule · coup de boule · French
coup de boule · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "C" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| 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) |
Longue queue: rang de « coup de boule » en français
Rare enough to double-check
coup de boule is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ku də bul\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how coup de boule appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La marmule donna un coup de boule au Sensi, qui chancela puis s'effondra dans les bras de Fauve. Cette dernière hurla de frayeur.
Y m’a foutu un coup de boule ! Les mecs, y m’a foutu un coup de boule ! Tu m’as foutu un coup de boule toi ?
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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.