couteau pliant
\ku.to pli.jɑ̃\
The verdict
“couteau pliant” 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
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Couteau dont la lame peut se plier vers le manche et généralement rentrer dans ce dernier dans une encoche réalisée à cette fin.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | couteau pliant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ku.to pli.jɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “couteau pliant” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for couteau pliant is 14 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ku.to pli.jɑ̃\. 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: "Couteau dont la lame peut se plier vers le manche et généralement rentrer dans ce dernier dans une encoche réalisée à cette fin.".
couteau pliant doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is couteau pliant, spelled C-O-U-T-E-A-U- -P-L-I-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Couteau dont la lame peut se plier vers le manche et généralement rentrer dans ce dernier dans une encoche réalisée à cette fin.
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 “couteau pliant”
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- -P-L-I-A-N-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ku.to pli.jɑ̃\ (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.