couteau à pain
\ku.to a pɛ̃\
The verdict
“couteau à pain” 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 September 3, 2026) - Couteau avec un bord dentelé, conçu pour couper le pain.
Corpus desk
Index FR-couteau-a-pain · couteau à pain · French
couteau à pain · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-8 8 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 | couteau à pain |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ku.to a pɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « couteau à pain » en français
Rare enough to double-check
couteau à pain is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ku.to a pɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Couteau avec un bord dentelé, conçu pour couper le pain.".
No misspelling variants are generated for couteau à pain in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is couteau à pain, spelled C-O-U-T-E-A-U- -À- -P-A-I-N.
Definition
- 1Couteau avec un bord dentelé, conçu pour couper le pain.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how couteau à pain appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Une fois dans l’âge, mes garçons doivent savoir manier le cheval et la lame, le sponton et la lance, en même temps que le couteau à pain.
En refermant peut-être crop fortement le tiroir, la lame a dû se loger dans la glissière du compartiment empêchant ainsi son ouverture. Cela ne peut être qu’un couteau, c’est le couteau à pain.
This word in other languages
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.