sourire en coin
\su.ʁiʁ ɑ̃ kwɛ̃\
The verdict
“sourire en coin” 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
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Qualifie un sourire qui indique une émotion négative.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sourire en coin |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \su.ʁiʁ ɑ̃ kwɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “sourire en coin” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for sourire en coin is 15 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \su.ʁiʁ ɑ̃ kwɛ̃\. 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: "Qualifie un sourire qui indique une émotion négative.".
sourire en coin has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 sourire en coin, spelled S-O-U-R-I-R-E- -E-N- -C-O-I-N.
Definition
- 1Qualifie un sourire qui indique une émotion négative.
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 “sourire en coin”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is S-O-U-R-I-R-E- -E-N- -C-O-I-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \su.ʁiʁ ɑ̃ kwɛ̃\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.