coup de circuit
\ku də siʁ.kɥi\
The verdict
“coup de circuit” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Frappe qui permet au frappeur de toucher aux quatre buts et marquer un point. Il s’agit souvent de frapper la balle au-dessus de la clôture du champ.
Corpus desk
Index FR-coup-de-circuit · coup de circuit · French
coup de circuit · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 15 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 circuit |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ku də siʁ.kɥi\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
coup de circuit is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ku də siʁ.kɥi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for coup de circuit, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is coup de circuit, spelled C-O-U-P- -D-E- -C-I-R-C-U-I-T.
Definition
- 1Frappe qui permet au frappeur de toucher aux quatre buts et marquer un point. Il s’agit souvent de frapper la balle au-dessus de la clôture du champ.
- 2Succès, exploit.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how coup de circuit appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
… le troisième-but Todd Frazier, son joueur préféré, frappe un coup de circuit pour lui.
Le président de GM Canada a qualifié cette campagne de «coup de circuit» ….
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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.