coupure de mot
\ku.pyʁ də mɔ\
The verdict
“coupure de mot” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Coupure nécessaire d’un mot en fin de ligne se matérialisant par le début du mot restant sur la ligne (suivi d’un trait d’union) et par la fin du mot commençant la ligne suivante.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | coupure de mot |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ku.pyʁ də mɔ\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “coupure de mot” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
coupure de mot is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ku.pyʁ də mɔ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Coupure nécessaire d’un mot en fin de ligne se matérialisant par le début du mot restant sur la ligne (suivi d’un trait d’union) et par la fin du mot commençant la ligne suivante.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for coupure de mot, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is coupure de mot, spelled C-O-U-P-U-R-E- -D-E- -M-O-T.
Definition
- 1Coupure nécessaire d’un mot en fin de ligne se matérialisant par le début du mot restant sur la ligne (suivi d’un trait d’union) et par la fin du mot commençant la ligne suivante.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “coupure de mot”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is C-O-U-P-U-R-E- -D-E- -M-O-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ku.pyʁ də mɔ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.