coup de fouet
Letters
13 characters
Language
French
word origin
Misspellings
0
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Confusables
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coup de fouet is aFrenchnoun. It means: Coup administré avec un fouet. Pronounced \ku d(ə) fwɛ\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | coup de fouet |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ku d(ə) fwɛ\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for coup de fouet is 13 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ku d(ə) fwɛ\. 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 fouet 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 fouet, spelled C-O-U-P- -D-E- -F-O-U-E-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Coup administré avec un fouet.
- 2Impression vive qui a pour résultat d’exciter l’activité physiologique.
- 3Rupture de fibres musculaires, ou de muscles minces, qui survient à la jambe par suite d’un effort.
- 4Accélération d’une activité.
- 5Stimulation apportée par un excitant, une boisson.
- 6Nuance impérative contenue dans l’intonation de celui qui parle.
- 7Stimulation intellectuelle apportée par les circonstances.
- 8Choc provoqué par la rupture d'une connexion de flexibles hydrauliques ou de tuyaux d'air comprimé. La rupture de la canalisation sous pression provoque l'éjection brutale de liquide et un mouvement de va-et-vient du tuyau pouvant endommager des équipements ou provoquer des blessures graves.
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