en coup de vent

/\ɑ̃ ku də vɑ̃\/ adv

Letters

15 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

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similar word pairs

en coup de vent is anFrenchadv. It means: À l’improviste et d’une manière brusque. Pronounced \ɑ̃ ku də vɑ̃\.

Key facts for en coup de vent
PropertyValue
Headworden coup de vent
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdv
IPA\ɑ̃ ku də vɑ̃\
Letters15
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for en coup de vent is 15 letters long, classified as anadv, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɑ̃ ku də vɑ̃\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No misspelling variants are generated for en coup de vent 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 en coup de vent, spelled E-N- -C-O-U-P- -D-E- -V-E-N-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    À l’improviste et d’une manière brusque.
  2. 2
    Se dit d'une coiffure.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "en coup de vent"?
"en coup de vent" is spelled E-N- -C-O-U-P- -D-E- -V-E-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is \ɑ̃ ku də vɑ̃\.
What does "en coup de vent" mean?
As an adv, "en coup de vent" means: À l’improviste et d’une manière brusque.
How do you pronounce "en coup de vent"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "en coup de vent" is \ɑ̃ ku də vɑ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "en coup de vent" come from?
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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.