coup de plafond
\ku də pla.fɔ̃\
The verdict
“coup de plafond” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Coup violent porté avec le front contre le visage d’une personne.
| 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) |
Where “coup de plafond” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for coup de plafond is 15 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ku də pla.fɔ̃\. 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: "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.
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Using “coup de plafond”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is C-O-U-P- -D-E- -P-L-A-F-O-N-D - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ku də pla.fɔ̃\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.