couteau de cuisine
\ku.to də kɥi.zin\
The verdict
“couteau de cuisine” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 18
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Grand couteau utilisé par les cuisiniers, par ceux qui font la cuisine.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | couteau de cuisine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ku.to də kɥi.zin\ |
| Letters | 18 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “couteau de cuisine” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for couteau de cuisine is 18 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ku.to də kɥi.zin\. 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: "Grand couteau utilisé par les cuisiniers, par ceux qui font la cuisine.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for couteau de cuisine, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is couteau de cuisine, spelled C-O-U-T-E-A-U- -D-E- -C-U-I-S-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Grand couteau utilisé par les cuisiniers, par ceux qui font la cuisine.
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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The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is C-O-U-T-E-A-U- -D-E- -C-U-I-S-I-N-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ku.to də kɥi.zin\ (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.