coupon
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#28,900
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
coupon is aFrenchnoun. It means: Ce qui reste d’une pièce d’étoffe ou de toile qu’on a débitée. Pronounced \ku.pɔ̃\. Often confused with coups and Cousin.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | coupon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ku.pɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #28,900 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for coupon is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ku.pɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #28,900 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for coupon, with forms such as "ccoupon", "copuon", and "couopn". 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, "coups", "Cousin", "coupons", 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 coupon, spelled C-O-U-P-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Ce qui reste d’une pièce d’étoffe ou de toile qu’on a débitée.
- 2Sorte de papier de crédit.
- 3Billet joint à un titre et qu’on en détachait pour toucher l’intérêt de ce titre quand il était échu.
- 4Chacun des billets qui donnent entrée dans une même loge ; billet collectif valant pour la totalité de la loge.
- 5Une certaine quantité de bûches liées ensemble avec des perches et des rouettes, et qui rassemblées en nombre formaient un train de bois flotté.
- 6Bon d’échange.
- 7Document papier ou informatique, permettant un rabais à l'achat du produit de consommation indiqué.
- 8Petite preuve documentaire d’une place, d’un rang réservé pour un service plus tard dans la journée.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccoupon,copuon,couopn,coupno,couponn,couppon,cuopon,ocupon
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for coupon
Misspelling Variants of "coupon"
Frequency rank: #28,900 in French
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Nearby French words
Other entries that begin with the letter C in our French index: