fade comme un vieux cocu
The verdict
“fade comme un vieux cocu” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as an adjective — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 24
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Sans saveur, plat.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fade comme un vieux cocu |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \fad kɔm œ̃ vjø kɔ.ky\ |
| Letters | 24 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “fade comme un vieux cocu” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for fade comme un vieux cocu is 24 letters long, classified as an adjective, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fad kɔm œ̃ vjø kɔ.ky\. 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: "Sans saveur, plat.".
No misspelling variants are generated for fade comme un vieux cocu 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 fade comme un vieux cocu, spelled F-A-D-E- -C-O-M-M-E- -U-N- -V-I-E-U-X- -C-O-C-U, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Sans saveur, plat.
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Using “fade comme un vieux cocu”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is F-A-D-E- -C-O-M-M-E- -U-N- -V-I-E-U-X- -C-O-C-U — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \fad kɔm œ̃ vjø kɔ.ky\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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