sacré coup de patte
The verdict
“sacré coup de patte” 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
- 19
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Aisance remarquable à porter des coups, à la boxe généralement.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sacré coup de patte |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sa.kʁe kud pat\ |
| Letters | 19 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “sacré coup de patte” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for sacré coup de patte is 19 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sa.kʁe kud pat\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for sacré coup de patte 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 sacré coup de patte, spelled S-A-C-R-É- -C-O-U-P- -D-E- -P-A-T-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Aisance remarquable à porter des coups, à la boxe généralement.
- 2Talent réel dans une activité créative, généralement manuelle, par exemple le dessin.
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Using “sacré coup de patte”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is S-A-C-R-É- -C-O-U-P- -D-E- -P-A-T-T-E — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \sa.kʁe kud pat\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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