sourire en coin
\su.ʁiʁ ɑ̃ kwɛ̃\
The verdict
“sourire en coin” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qualifie un sourire qui indique une émotion négative.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sourire-en-coin · sourire en coin · French
sourire en coin · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 15 letters
- VOW-7 7 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "S" 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 | 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) |
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Rare enough to double-check
sourire en coin is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \su.ʁiʁ ɑ̃ kwɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sourire en coin appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il remercia Hildegarde avec un sourire en coin qui en disait long sur la piètre estime en laquelle il tenait les femmes du clan Löwenberg.
Chaddi eut un sourire en coin que ne remarqua pas le prêtre.
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.