être aux cent coups

/\ɛ.tʁ‿o sɑ̃ ku\/ verb

Letters

19 characters

Language

French

word origin

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être aux cent coups is aFrenchverb. It means: Être très inquiet. Pronounced \ɛ.tʁ‿o sɑ̃ ku\.

Key facts for être aux cent coups
PropertyValue
Headwordêtre aux cent coups
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\ɛ.tʁ‿o sɑ̃ ku\
Letters19
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

être aux cent coups 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 être aux cent coups is 19 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɛ.tʁ‿o sɑ̃ ku\. 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: "Être très inquiet.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for être aux cent coups 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 être aux cent coups, spelled Ê-T-R-E- -A-U-X- -C-E-N-T- -C-O-U-P-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Être très inquiet.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "être aux cent coups"?
"être aux cent coups" is spelled Ê-T-R-E- -A-U-X- -C-E-N-T- -C-O-U-P-S. The IPA pronunciation is \ɛ.tʁ‿o sɑ̃ ku\.
What does "être aux cent coups" mean?
As a verb, "être aux cent coups" means: Être très inquiet.
How do you pronounce "être aux cent coups"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "être aux cent coups" is \ɛ.tʁ‿o sɑ̃ ku\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "être aux cent coups" come from?
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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.