passer un coup de fil
\pa.se œ̃ ku də fil\
The verdict
“passer un coup de fil” 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
- 21
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Téléphoner.
| 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) |
Where “passer un coup de fil” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for passer un coup de fil is 21 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pa.se œ̃ ku də fil\. 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: "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.
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Using “passer un coup de fil”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is P-A-S-S-E-R- -U-N- -C-O-U-P- -D-E- -F-I-L - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \pa.se œ̃ ku də fil\ (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.