coupure

/\ku.pyʁ\/ noun

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.

Key facts for coupure
PropertyValue
Headwordcoupure
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ku.pyʁ\
Letters7
Frequency rank#9,632
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs18
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of coupure in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

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

  1. 1
    Séparation ou division faite en tranchant dans un corps continu.
  2. 2
    Retranchement que l’on fait dans une composition littéraire.
  3. 3
    Fragment.
  4. 4
    Fragment détaché d’un journal pour le conserver ou pour le reproduire.
  5. 5
    Fraction du billet de banque type.
  6. 6
    Rigole, petit canal pour faciliter l’écoulement ou changer le cours des eaux.
  7. 7
    Séparations pratiquées dans les lignes ennemies, dans les groupements adverses.
  8. 8
    Coupure de courant, arrêt de l'alimentation en électricité.
  9. 9
    Unité de fractionnement d'un découpage.
  10. 10
    Champ d'une carte constituant ou non une unité de découpage.
  11. 11
    Sur un dessin technique, symbole graphique sur un axe, permettant la représentation des certaines données difficilement observables à cause de l’échelle.

Synonyms

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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"

ccoupure8copuure7couppure8couprue7coupuer7coupurre8couupre7cuopure7
Misspelling Variants of "coupure"

Frequency rank: #9,632 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "coupure"?
"coupure" is spelled C-O-U-P-U-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ku.pyʁ\.
What does "coupure" mean?
As a noun, "coupure" means: Séparation ou division faite en tranchant dans un corps continu.
What words are commonly confused with "coupure"?
"coupure" is commonly confused with "couvre", "courre", "cousue". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "coupure"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "coupure" is \ku.pyʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "coupure" come from?
"coupure" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.