sur un coup de tête

/\sy.ʁ‿œ̃ ku‿d tɛt\/ adv

Letters

19 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

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similar word pairs

sur un coup de tête is anFrenchadv. It means: Sur une impulsion, sans réfléchir, ni en mesurer les conséquences. Pronounced \sy.ʁ‿œ̃ ku‿d tɛt\.

Key facts for sur un coup de tête
PropertyValue
Headwordsur un coup de tête
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdv
IPA\sy.ʁ‿œ̃ ku‿d tɛt\
Letters19
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

sur un coup de tête is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for sur un coup de tête is 19 letters long, classified as anadv, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sy.ʁ‿œ̃ ku‿d tɛt\. 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: "Sur une impulsion, sans réfléchir, ni en mesurer les conséquences.".

No misspelling variants are generated for sur un coup de tête 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 sur un coup de tête, spelled S-U-R- -U-N- -C-O-U-P- -D-E- -T-Ê-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Sur une impulsion, sans réfléchir, ni en mesurer les conséquences.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "sur un coup de tête"?
"sur un coup de tête" is spelled S-U-R- -U-N- -C-O-U-P- -D-E- -T-Ê-T-E. The IPA pronunciation is \sy.ʁ‿œ̃ ku‿d tɛt\.
What does "sur un coup de tête" mean?
As an adv, "sur un coup de tête" means: Sur une impulsion, sans réfléchir, ni en mesurer les conséquences.
How do you pronounce "sur un coup de tête"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "sur un coup de tête" is \sy.ʁ‿œ̃ ku‿d tɛt\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "sur un coup de tête" come from?
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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.