coup de poing
Letters
13 characters
Language
French
word origin
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0
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coup de poing is aFrenchnoun. It means: Coup donné avec le poing fermé. Pronounced \ku də pwɛ̃\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | coup de poing |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ku də pwɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for coup de poing is 13 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ku də pwɛ̃\. 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 frequent misspelling variants are recorded for coup de poing 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 poing, spelled C-O-U-P- -D-E- -P-O-I-N-G, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Coup donné avec le poing fermé.
- 2Gros bouton-poussoir, généralement rouge, actionnable à l’aide du poing enclenchant des procédures d’urgence (mise hors tension, alarme, etc.) ou pouvant être dangereuse, nécessitant une extrême vigilance (actionnement d’un monte-charge, d’une porte blindée, etc.).
- 3Outil et arme préhistorique constitué d’un nucléus de pierre taillée en ogive.
- 4Petit pistolet de poche à un coup de la fin du XIXᵉ siècle.
- 5Arme de choc métallique composée d’anneaux rendant plus efficace les coups donnés grâce aux poings. Souvent qualifié d'"américain".
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