coup de feu
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11 characters
Language
French
word origin
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coup de feu is aFrenchnoun. It means: Détonation produite par une arme à feu, lors d’un tir. Pronounced \ku də fø\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | coup de feu |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ku də fø\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for coup de feu is 11 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ku də fø\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for coup de feu in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 feu, spelled C-O-U-P- -D-E- -F-E-U, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Détonation produite par une arme à feu, lors d’un tir.
- 2Signal sonore qui donne le départ d’une course, même s’il n'est pas donné avec un pistolet.
- 3Départ d'une course.
- 4Brusque élévation de la température d’une fermentation de matières organiques (compost, fumier, etc.)
- 5Brusque affluence de clients qui se traduit par une activité intense.
- 6Affluence de faits, activité intense.
- 7Cuisson excessive d’un mets.
- 8Type d'appareil de cuisson − généralement professionnel − dont la partie chauffante est composée d’une plaque très épaisse pour accumuler la chaleur et la restituer très rapidement à une poêle, une casserole, etc.
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