filer un coup de louche
\fi.le œ̃ ku də luʃ\
The verdict
“filer un coup de louche” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a verb - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 23
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Aider, rendre service à quelqu’un.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | filer un coup de louche |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \fi.le œ̃ ku də luʃ\ |
| Letters | 23 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “filer un coup de louche” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for filer un coup de louche is 23 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fi.le œ̃ ku də luʃ\. 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: "Aider, rendre service à quelqu’un.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for filer un coup de louche, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is filer un coup de louche, spelled F-I-L-E-R- -U-N- -C-O-U-P- -D-E- -L-O-U-C-H-E.
Definition
- 1Aider, rendre service à quelqu’un.
This word in other languages
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 “filer un coup de louche”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is F-I-L-E-R- -U-N- -C-O-U-P- -D-E- -L-O-U-C-H-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \fi.le œ̃ ku də luʃ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
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.