coup de pute

/\ku də pyt\/ noun

Letters

12 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

coup de pute is aFrenchnoun. It means: Coup bas, vilain tour. Pronounced \ku də pyt\.

Key facts for coup de pute
PropertyValue
Headwordcoup de pute
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ku də pyt\
Letters12
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

coup de pute is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for coup de pute is 12 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ku də pyt\. 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 bas, vilain tour.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for coup de pute 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 pute, spelled C-O-U-P- -D-E- -P-U-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Coup bas, vilain tour.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "coup de pute"?
"coup de pute" is spelled C-O-U-P- -D-E- -P-U-T-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ku də pyt\.
What does "coup de pute" mean?
As a noun, "coup de pute" means: Coup bas, vilain tour.
How do you pronounce "coup de pute"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "coup de pute" is \ku də pyt\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "coup de pute" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.