la couper
\la ku.pe\
The verdict
“la couper” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Dérouter, interloquer, surprendre à tel point que la personne perd le fil de ce qu’elle était en train de dire ou de faire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-la-couper · la couper · French
la couper · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "L" 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 | la couper |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \la ku.pe\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « la couper » en français
Rare enough to double-check
la couper is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \la ku.pe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Dérouter, interloquer, surprendre à tel point que la personne perd le fil de ce qu’elle était en train de dire ou de faire.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for la couper, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is la couper, spelled L-A- -C-O-U-P-E-R.
Definition
- 1Dérouter, interloquer, surprendre à tel point que la personne perd le fil de ce qu’elle était en train de dire ou de faire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how la couper appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
— Ah ! ah ! Ça vous la coupe, ça !…
Et encore ce coup de menton qui signifie en langage de Ménilmontant : « Voilà, ma vieille, ça te la coupe ! »
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.