coûte que coûte
\kut kə kut\
The verdict
“coûte que coûte” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as an adverb - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Quelles qu’en soient les conséquences ; à n’importe quel prix.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | coûte que coûte |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \kut kə kut\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “coûte que coûte” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for coûte que coûte is 15 letters long, classified as an adverb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kut kə kut\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Quelles qu’en soient les conséquences ; à n’importe quel prix.".
No misspelling variants are generated for coûte que coûte in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is coûte que coûte, spelled C-O-Û-T-E- -Q-U-E- -C-O-Û-T-E.
Definition
- 1Quelles qu’en soient les conséquences ; à n’importe quel prix.
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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 “coûte que coûte”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is C-O-Û-T-E- -Q-U-E- -C-O-Û-T-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \kut kə kut\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.