coupais
\ku.pɛ\
The verdict
“coupais” is uncommon French (frequency #86,580 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,580
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait de couper.
Corpus desk
Index FR-coupais · coupais · French
coupais · rank #86,580 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,580
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cosmodrome
Nearest frequency peer: cosmodrome (-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 « coupais »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- corton
corton
13,424 corpus weight
- cosmodrome
cosmodrome
13,422 corpus weight
- coupais
coupais
13,421 corpus weight
- coupleur
coupleur
13,420 corpus weight
- covering
covering
13,419 corpus weight
- cracha
cracha
13,418 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « coupais » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | coupais |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ku.pɛ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #86,580 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « coupais » en français
Rare enough to double-check
coupais is uncommon French at frequency #86,580 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ku.pɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for coupais in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is coupais, spelled C-O-U-P-A-I-S.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait de couper.
- 2Deuxième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait de couper.
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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