couper le sifflet
\ku.pe lə si.flɛ\
The verdict
“couper le sifflet” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 17
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Faire taire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-couper-le-sifflet · couper le sifflet · French
couper le sifflet · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 17 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "C" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | couper le sifflet |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ku.pe lə si.flɛ\ |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
couper le sifflet is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \ku.pe lə si.flɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Faire taire.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for couper le sifflet, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is couper le sifflet, spelled C-O-U-P-E-R- -L-E- -S-I-F-F-L-E-T.
Definition
- 1Faire taire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how couper le sifflet appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Et là, je lui ai sorti une remarque bien sentie en lui rappelant qu’elle aussi avait perdu un gros client quelques années plus tôt. Ça lui a coupé le sifflet.
Bigre ! il paraît que le bourgeois pense à lui couper le sifflet… Je regrette à présent de quitter la baraque ce soir, j’aurais assisté au grabuge.
Synonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.