mur coupe-feu
\myʁ kup.fø\
The verdict
“mur coupe-feu” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Mur fait de matériaux incombustibles construit pour empêcher la propagation du feu entre les bâtiments ou à l'intérieur d'un grand bâtiment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mur coupe-feu |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \myʁ kup.fø\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “mur coupe-feu” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for mur coupe-feu is 13 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \myʁ kup.fø\. 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: "Mur fait de matériaux incombustibles construit pour empêcher la propagation du feu entre les bâtiments ou à l'intérieur d'un grand bâtiment.".
No misspelling variants are generated for mur coupe-feu 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 mur coupe-feu, spelled M-U-R- -C-O-U-P-E---F-E-U, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Mur fait de matériaux incombustibles construit pour empêcher la propagation du feu entre les bâtiments ou à l'intérieur d'un grand bâtiment.
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Using “mur coupe-feu”
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- The one correct French spelling is M-U-R- -C-O-U-P-E---F-E-U - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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