dans le coup

/\dɑ̃ l‿ku\/ adj

Letters

12 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

dans le coup is anFrenchadj. It means: À la mode, conforme aux goûts du moment. Pronounced \dɑ̃ l‿ku\.

Key facts for dans le coup
PropertyValue
Headworddans le coup
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdj
IPA\dɑ̃ l‿ku\
Letters12
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

dans le coup is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for dans le coup is 12 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \dɑ̃ l‿ku\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for dans le coup in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is dans le coup, spelled D-A-N-S- -L-E- -C-O-U-P, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    À la mode, conforme aux goûts du moment.
  2. 2
    Conforme aux besoins du moment.
  3. 3
    Participer à une action collective.

Synonyms

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "dans le coup"?
"dans le coup" is spelled D-A-N-S- -L-E- -C-O-U-P. The IPA pronunciation is \dɑ̃ l‿ku\.
What does "dans le coup" mean?
As an adj, "dans le coup" means: À la mode, conforme aux goûts du moment.
How do you pronounce "dans le coup"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "dans le coup" is \dɑ̃ l‿ku\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "dans le coup" come from?
"dans le coup" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.