coût de la vie
\ku də la vi\
The verdict
“coût de la vie” 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) - Budget nécessaire à la vie d’un ménage, qui inclut l’hébergement, la nourriture et le transport.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cout-de-la-vie · coût de la vie · French
coût de la vie · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "C" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | coût de la vie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ku də la vi\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “coût de la vie” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
coût de la vie is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ku də la vi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Budget nécessaire à la vie d’un ménage, qui inclut l’hébergement, la nourriture et le transport.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for coût de la vie, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is coût de la vie, spelled C-O-Û-T- -D-E- -L-A- -V-I-E.
Definition
- 1Budget nécessaire à la vie d’un ménage, qui inclut l’hébergement, la nourriture et le transport.
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