valoir le coup
\va.lwaʁ lə ku\
The verdict
“valoir le coup” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Être suffisamment intéressant pour se donner la peine de le faire, de l’obtenir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-valoir-le-coup · valoir le coup · French
valoir le coup · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "V" 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 | valoir le coup |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \va.lwaʁ lə ku\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « valoir le coup » en français
Rare enough to double-check
valoir le coup is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \va.lwaʁ lə ku\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Être suffisamment intéressant pour se donner la peine de le faire, de l’obtenir.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for valoir le coup, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is valoir le coup, spelled V-A-L-O-I-R- -L-E- -C-O-U-P.
Definition
- 1Être suffisamment intéressant pour se donner la peine de le faire, de l’obtenir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how valoir le coup appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il y a peu de chances que ça fonctionne, mais ça vaut le coup d’essayer.
— Crois moi, ça ne vaut pas le coup de travailler autant pour si peu.
This word in other languages
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.