coupure

\ku.pyʁ\

/\ku.pyʁ\/ noun

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The verdict

“coupure” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #9,632. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#9,632
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords
9
tracked misspellings
18
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Séparation ou division faite en tranchant dans un corps continu.

Corpus desk

Index FR-coupure · coupure · French

coupure · rank #9,632 · 9 variants · 18 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #9,632
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 18 pairs
  • VAR-MID 9 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH cotisation

Nearest frequency peer: cotisation (-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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « coupure »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « coupure » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

coupure vs couvre
71% similar
coupure vs courre
71% similar
coupure vs cousue
71% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

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)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « coupure »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).coupurese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « cotisation » (#9,631), « coupée » (#9,633), « coopérative » (#9,630). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « coupure » est au #9,632. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 9 spelling variants around coupure (IPA \ku.pyʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #9,632 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 11 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for coupure, with forms such as "ccoupure", "copuure", and "couppure". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 18 confusable-pair relationships, "couvre", "courre", "cousue", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is coupure, spelled C-O-U-P-U-R-E.

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.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how coupure appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Le drame ivoirien mêle inextricablement ces deux dimensions et a abouti à partir de la tentative d’instauration du concept d’« ivoirité » à une coupure du pays en deux et à une situation de guerre civile.
  2. J’ai une coupure au doigt.

Synonyms

cassurecoupedécoupureélagageentailleestafiladeraccourcissementtroncature

This word in other languages

cut(English)corte(Español)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ccoupure
  • copuure
  • couppure
  • couprue
  • coupuer
  • coupurre
  • couupre
  • cuopure
  • ocupure

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of coupure - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

ccoupure1copuure2couppure1couprue2coupuer2coupurre1couupre2cuopure2
Edit distance from "coupure"

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.

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?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "coupure", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

cuisses#9,636concile#9,624douteux#9,641débuter#9,644

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).

courriel9 variantscréées9 variantsdégagé9 variantsfrappes9 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list