coupaient
\ku.pɛ\
The verdict
“coupaient” is uncommon French (frequency #69,726 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,726
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif imparfait de couper.
Corpus desk
Index FR-coupaient · coupaient · French
coupaient · rank #69,726 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,726
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Cosne
Nearest frequency peer: Cosne (-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 « coupaient »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cosmic
cosmic
30,277 corpus weight
- Cosne
Cosne
30,276 corpus weight
- coupaient
coupaient
30,275 corpus weight
- courbés
courbés
30,274 corpus weight
- Couvin
Couvin
30,272 corpus weight
- crasseuse
crasseuse
30,271 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « coupaient » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | coupaient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ku.pɛ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #69,726 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « coupaient » en français
Rare enough to double-check
coupaient is uncommon French at frequency #69,726 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ku.pɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif imparfait de couper.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for coupaient, 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 nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is coupaient, spelled C-O-U-P-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif imparfait de couper.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how coupaient appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Elles y avaient reconnu les places où vient ce foin forestier si joli, si fin, qu’elles coupaient, fanaient, bottelaient et engrangeaient ; elles y trouvaient les deux tiers de la nourriture des vaches en hiver qu’on menait d’ailleurs paître pendant les belles journées aux endroits bien connus où l’herbe verdoie.
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.
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