coupeur
\ku.pœʁ\
The verdict
“coupeur” is uncommon French (frequency #64,345 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,345
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celui qui coupe. — Se dit spécialement de ceux qui coupent les grappes en vendange.
Corpus desk
Index FR-coupeur · coupeur · French
coupeur · rank #64,345 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,345
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH coureuse
Nearest frequency peer: coureuse (+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 « coupeur »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- coronado
coronado
35,660 corpus weight
- cottages
cottages
35,658 corpus weight
- coupeur
coupeur
35,656 corpus weight
- coureuse
coureuse
35,655 corpus weight
- couvée
couvée
35,654 corpus weight
- crashs
crashs
35,653 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « coupeur » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | coupeur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ku.pœʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #64,345 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « coupeur » en français
Rare enough to double-check
coupeur is uncommon French at frequency #64,345 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ku.pœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for coupeur, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. 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, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is coupeur, spelled C-O-U-P-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Celui qui coupe. — Se dit spécialement de ceux qui coupent les grappes en vendange.
- 2Tailleur.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how coupeur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Laboureurs des Crêtes ou du Vallage, sarteurs d’Ardenne, coupeurs de foin des censes de Thiérache, tous disposaient de mille et une façons de prédire le temps, […].
En effet après avoir utilisé la main-d’œuvre villageoise avant la guerre, espagnole après, étudiante plus récemment, le viticulteur ne sait plus où trouver ses coupeurs.
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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