coupe
\kup\
The verdict
“coupe” is in the everyday core of French, ranked #668 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #668
- frequency rank, French
- 5
- letters
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Action de couper.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | coupe |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kup\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #668 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “coupe” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for coupe is 5 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kup\. Corpus data places it at rank #668 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language. Wiktionary records 17 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for coupe, with forms such as "ccoupe", "copue", and "couep". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "cup", "CPE", "cour", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is coupe, spelled C-O-U-P-E.
Definition
- 1Action de couper.
- 2Action de couper.
- 3Exploitation d’une parcelle pour en extraire du bois ; action ou lieu d’extraction ; par extension, opération sylvicole bénéficiaire.
- 4Manière de couper ; disposition qui en résulte.
- 5Manière ou résultat de couper les cheveux.
- 6Manière de tailler les pierres.
- 7Manière de découper les étoffes, les cuirs.
- 8Résultat de l’action de couper.
- 9Endroit où une chose a été coupée.
- 10Plan que l’on suppose couper l’intérieur d’une construction ou d’un objet (pièce ou assemblage), pour en montrer les dimensions relatives et les détails intérieurs ; représentation d’un objet, d’un édifice, d’un vaisseau, etc., comme s’il avait été coupé selon ce plan.
- 11Division, distribution. Arrangement des repos dans le vers, dans la phrase.
- 12Séparation qu’on fait en deux parties du jeu de cartes qu’un joueur a mêlé.
- 13Action et manière d’entamer la planche avec le burin.
- 14Quantité de verre en fusion que l’on prend pour faire une glace soufflée.
- 15Petit canal qui, placé sous les appuis de croisée, sert à l’écoulement des eaux.
- 16Manière de nager, qui, consistant à porter, alternativement et avec force, chaque bras en avant et à le ramener le long du corps, d’avant en arrière, coupe l’eau rapidement.
- 17Coupante, raccourci.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccoupe,copue,couep,couppe,cuope,ocupe
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of coupe - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Using “coupe”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is C-O-U-P-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \kup\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “cup” - see the side-by-side comparison. coupe vs cup
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.