couteau de cuisine
\ku.to də kɥi.zin\
The verdict
“couteau de cuisine” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 18
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Grand couteau utilisé par les cuisiniers, par ceux qui font la cuisine.
Corpus desk
Index FR-couteau-de-cuisine · couteau de cuisine · French
couteau de cuisine · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 18 letters
- VOW-10 10 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 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) |
Longue queue: rang de « couteau de cuisine » en français
Rare enough to double-check
couteau de cuisine is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ku.to də kɥi.zin\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how couteau de cuisine appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On l'a tuée d'un coup de couteau en plein cœur, sans doute un couteau de cuisine, avant de la jeter dans la benne à ordures.
À Seki, une petite ville du centre du Japon autrefois réputée pour ses sabres de samouraïs, des artisans affûtent et polissent des couteaux de cuisine à tour de bras.
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.