de bèls còps
\de βɛls kɔps\
The verdict
“de bèls còps” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as an adverb - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - (adverbe de temps) maintes fois, à plusieurs reprises
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | de bèls còps |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \de βɛls kɔps\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “de bèls còps” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for de bèls còps is 12 letters long, classified as an adverb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \de βɛls kɔps\. 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: "(adverbe de temps) maintes fois, à plusieurs reprises".
No misspelling variants are generated for de bèls còps in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. 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 de bèls còps, spelled D-E- -B-È-L-S- -C-Ò-P-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1(adverbe de temps) maintes fois, à plusieurs reprises
Synonyms
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 “de bèls còps”
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- The one correct French spelling is D-E- -B-È-L-S- -C-Ò-P-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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