coupantes
\ku.pɑ̃t\
The verdict
“coupantes” is uncommon French (frequency #90,584 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,584
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin pluriel de coupant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-coupantes · coupantes · French
coupantes · rank #90,584 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,584
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cotillon
Nearest frequency peer: cotillon (-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 « coupantes »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- costières
costières
9,419 corpus weight
- cotillon
cotillon
9,418 corpus weight
- coupantes
coupantes
9,417 corpus weight
- courbures
courbures
9,416 corpus weight
- cram
cram
9,414 corpus weight
- Craponne
Craponne
9,413 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « coupantes » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | coupantes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ku.pɑ̃t\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #90,584 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « coupantes » en français
Rare enough to double-check
coupantes is uncommon French at frequency #90,584 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ku.pɑ̃t\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin pluriel de coupant.".
coupantes has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is coupantes, spelled C-O-U-P-A-N-T-E-S.
Definition
- 1Féminin pluriel de coupant.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how coupantes appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C’était comme lorsque j’avais essayé de décanner le fauteuil de rotin aux lames coupantes de tante Edmée.
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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