coupure
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#9,632
in French word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
18
similar word pairs
coupure is aFrenchnoun. It means: Séparation ou division faite en tranchant dans un corps continu. Pronounced \ku.pyʁ\. It ranks #9,632 in French word frequency. Often confused with couvre and courre.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | coupure |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ku.pyʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #9,632 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 18 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for coupure is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ku.pyʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #9,632 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 11 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for coupure, with forms such as "ccoupure", "copuure", and "couppure". 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 18 confusable-pair relationships, "couvre", "courre", "cousue", 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 coupure, spelled C-O-U-P-U-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Séparation ou division faite en tranchant dans un corps continu.
- 2Retranchement que l’on fait dans une composition littéraire.
- 3Fragment.
- 4Fragment détaché d’un journal pour le conserver ou pour le reproduire.
- 5Fraction du billet de banque type.
- 6Rigole, petit canal pour faciliter l’écoulement ou changer le cours des eaux.
- 7Séparations pratiquées dans les lignes ennemies, dans les groupements adverses.
- 8Coupure de courant, arrêt de l'alimentation en électricité.
- 9Unité de fractionnement d'un découpage.
- 10Champ d'une carte constituant ou non une unité de découpage.
- 11Sur un dessin technique, symbole graphique sur un axe, permettant la représentation des certaines données difficilement observables à cause de l’échelle.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccoupure,copuure,couppure,couprue,coupuer,coupurre,couupre,cuopure,ocupure
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for coupure
Misspelling Variants of "coupure"
Frequency rank: #9,632 in French
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