coup de coin

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for coup de coin is 12 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ku də kwɛ̃\. 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: "Faute, involontaire ou délibérée, au cours de laquelle un joueur envoie le ballon derrière sa propre ligne de but.".

No misspelling variants are generated for coup de coin 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 coup de coin, spelled C-O-U-P- -D-E- -C-O-I-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.