passer un coup de fil
\pa.se œ̃ ku də fil\
The verdict
“passer un coup de fil” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 21
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Téléphoner.
Corpus desk
Index FR-passer-un-coup-de-fil · passer un coup de fil · French
passer un coup de fil · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 21 letters
- VOW-7 7 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "P" 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 | passer un coup de fil |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pa.se œ̃ ku də fil\ |
| Letters | 21 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « passer un coup de fil » en français
Rare enough to double-check
passer un coup de fil is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \pa.se œ̃ ku də fil\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Téléphoner.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for passer un coup de fil, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 passer un coup de fil, spelled P-A-S-S-E-R- -U-N- -C-O-U-P- -D-E- -F-I-L.
Definition
- 1Téléphoner.
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.