coupelle
\ku.pɛl\
The verdict
“coupelle” is an uncommon French word, ranked #62,172 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #62,172
- frequency rank, French
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Petit vase en forme de tasse, fait avec des cendres lavées ou des os calcinés, dont on se sert pour séparer, par l’action du feu, l’or et l’argent des autres métaux avec lesquels ils sont unis, et ...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | coupelle |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ku.pɛl\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #62,172 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “coupelle” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for coupelle is 8 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ku.pɛl\. Corpus data places it at rank #62,172 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Zero misspellings are on record for coupelle in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is coupelle, spelled C-O-U-P-E-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1Petit vase en forme de tasse, fait avec des cendres lavées ou des os calcinés, dont on se sert pour séparer, par l’action du feu, l’or et l’argent des autres métaux avec lesquels ils sont unis, et particulièrement du cuivre.
- 2Petit récipient utilisé pour cuisiner ou pour le service à table.
- 3Petit récipient évasé décoratif utilisé dans les foyers au quotidien pour y déposer de petits objets.
- 4Petit récipient évasé et concave, en verre ou en plastique, utilisé en chimie.
- 5Ce qui a la forme d’une petite coupe.
This word in other languages
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 “coupelle”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is C-O-U-P-E-L-L-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ku.pɛl\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.