coup de plafond
\ku də pla.fɔ̃\
The verdict
“coup de plafond” 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) - Coup violent porté avec le front contre le visage d’une personne.
Corpus desk
Index FR-coup-de-plafond · coup de plafond · French
coup de plafond · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 15 letters
- VOW-5 5 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 plafond |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ku də pla.fɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
coup de plafond is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ku də pla.fɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Coup violent porté avec le front contre le visage d’une personne.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for coup de plafond, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is coup de plafond, spelled C-O-U-P- -D-E- -P-L-A-F-O-N-D.
Definition
- 1Coup violent porté avec le front contre le visage d’une personne.
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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.