coupage
\ku.paʒ\
The verdict
“coupage” is uncommon French (frequency #75,555 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,555
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de mêler une liqueur avec une autre liqueur plus ou moins forte.
Corpus desk
Index FR-coupage · coupage · French
coupage · rank #75,555 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,555
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Coumba
Nearest frequency peer: Coumba (-1 rank slots)
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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « coupage »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Costanza
Costanza
24,450 corpus weight
- cotre
cotre
24,448 corpus weight
- Coumba
Coumba
24,447 corpus weight
- coupage
coupage
24,446 corpus weight
- courraient
courraient
24,445 corpus weight
- coy
coy
24,442 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « coupage » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | coupage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ku.paʒ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #75,555 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « coupage » en français
Rare enough to double-check
coupage is uncommon French at frequency #75,555 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ku.paʒ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for coupage, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is coupage, spelled C-O-U-P-A-G-E.
Definition
- 1Action de mêler une liqueur avec une autre liqueur plus ou moins forte.
- 2Action de falsifier un produit liquide avec une matière de moindre valeur.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how coupage appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Fouillade parle alors d’un rouge presque violet, qui supporte bien le coupage, comme s’il avait été mis au monde pour ça.
Élément fort utile et très recherché bientôt, de coupages de bon aloi, les jus de raisin d'hybrides peut devenir un débouché, sauveur de la viticulture pléthorique, si les industriels ont la sagesse de rechercher d'abord et toujours la qualité, […].
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
Frequently Asked Questions
How do you spell "coupage"?
What does "coupage" mean?
How do you pronounce "coupage"?
What language does "coupage" come from?
Is PlainSpell free to use?
Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "coupage", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).