couplet
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#19,248
in French word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
couplet is aFrenchnoun. It means: Chacune des parties dont se compose une chanson et qui d’ordinaire comprennent le même nombre de vers et se terminent par un refrain. Pronounced \ku.plɛ\. Often confused with coupole and courbet.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | couplet |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ku.plɛ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #19,248 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for couplet is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ku.plɛ\. Corpus data places it at rank #19,248 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for couplet, with forms such as "ccouplet", "copulet", and "coulpet". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "coupole", "courbet", "couplets", 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 spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is couplet, spelled C-O-U-P-L-E-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Chacune des parties dont se compose une chanson et qui d’ordinaire comprennent le même nombre de vers et se terminent par un refrain.
- 2Chanson.
- 3Suite de vers sur une même rime.
- 4Dans un discours ; tirade ; morceau de toute étendue.
- 5Chant dialogué dans certaines comédies.
- 6Deux pattes de fer à queue d’aronde, assemblées par une charnière et servant à unir un châssis avec son dormant, un couvercle avec le corps d’une cassette, d’une boîte, etc.
- 7Rengaine.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccouplet,copulet,coulpet,coupelt,couplett,coupllet,couplte,coupplet,cuoplet,ocuplet
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "couplet"
Frequency rank: #19,248 in French
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