être né coiffé
\ɛtʁ ne kwa.fe\
The verdict
“être né coiffé” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Avoir de la chance.
Corpus desk
Index FR-etre-ne-coiffe · être né coiffé · French
être né coiffé · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "Ê" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | être né coiffé |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɛtʁ ne kwa.fe\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
être né coiffé is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \ɛtʁ ne kwa.fe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Avoir de la chance.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for être né coiffé in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is être né coiffé, spelled Ê-T-R-E- -N-É- -C-O-I-F-F-É.
Definition
- 1Avoir de la chance.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how être né coiffé appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
J’ai le truc de chaque commerce. Sais-tu pourquoi ? Je suis né coiffé. Ma mère a gardé ma coiffe, je te la donnerai !
Il était né coiffé, disait-on avec un sourire malin où n'entrait point d'indignation.
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.