lâcher le coude
\lɑ.ʃe lə kud\
The verdict
“lâcher le coude” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Laisser tranquille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lacher-le-coude · lâcher le coude · French
lâcher le coude · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 15 letters
- VOW-6 6 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 | lâcher le coude |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \lɑ.ʃe lə kud\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « lâcher le coude » en français
Rare enough to double-check
lâcher le coude is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \lɑ.ʃe lə kud\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Laisser tranquille.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for lâcher le coude, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is lâcher le coude, spelled L-Â-C-H-E-R- -L-E- -C-O-U-D-E.
Definition
- 1Laisser tranquille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how lâcher le coude appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
— Je vous prie de me lâcher le coude, avec vos grossièretés.
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.