coup de main
Letters
12 characters
Language
French
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
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similar word pairs
coup de main is aFrenchnoun. It means: Expédition ou attaque faite à l’improviste. Pronounced \ku d(ə) mɛ̃\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | coup de main |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ku d(ə) mɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for coup de main is 12 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ku d(ə) mɛ̃\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for coup de main 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 main, spelled C-O-U-P- -D-E- -M-A-I-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Expédition ou attaque faite à l’improviste.
- 2Entreprise hardie dont l’exécution est prompte.
- 3Un peu d’aide, du soutien généralement sous une forme concrète et efficace. → voir donner un coup de main
- 4Façon de manipuler, de travailler avec habileté ; savoir-faire.
- 5Effet non souhaité, mauvaise impulsion donnée à une boule par maladresse ou habitude et déviant sa trajectoire.
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